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Accretion Disk Size and Updated Time-delay Measurements in the Gravitationally Lensed Quasar SDSS J165043.44+425149.3

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal
We analyze variability in 15-season optical lightcurves from the doubly imaged lensed quasar SDSS J165043.44+425149.3 (SDSS1650), comprising five seasons of monitoring data from the Maidanak Observatory (277 nights in total, including the two seasons of ...
A. B. Rivera   +12 more
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Gravitational microlensing constraints on primordial black holes by Euclid [PDF]

open access: green, 2021
Lindita Hamolli   +3 more
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Estimating Microlensing Parameters from Observables and Stellar Isochrones with pyLIMASS

open access: yesThe Astronomical Journal
We present pyLIMASS, a novel algorithm for estimating the physical properties of the lensing system in microlensing events. The main idea of pyLIMASS is to combine all available information regarding the microlensing event, defined as observables , and ...
E. Bachelet   +2 more
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Detecting Dark Objects with Plasma Microlensing by Their Gravitational Wakes

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal
A moving mass makes a gravitational wake in the partially ionized interstellar medium, which acts as a lens for radio-frequency light. Consequently, plasma microlensing could complement gravitational microlensing in the search for invisible massive ...
M. Sten Delos
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Quasar Microlensing Statistics and Flux-ratio Anomalies in Lens Models

open access: yesThe Astronomical Journal
Precise lens modeling is a critical step in time delay studies of multiply imaged quasars, which are key for measuring some important cosmological parameters (especially H _0 ).
E. Mediavilla   +2 more
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KMT-2022-BLG-2397: Brown Dwarf at the Upper Shore of the Einstein Desert

open access: yesThe Astronomical Journal, 2023
We measure the Einstein radius of the single-lens microlensing event KMT-2022-BLG-2397 to be θ _E = 24.8 ± 3.6 μ as, placing it at the upper shore of the Einstein Desert, 9 ≲ θ _E / μ as ≲ 25, between free-floating planets (FFPs) and bulge brown dwarfs ...
Andrew Gould   +20 more
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Fractal Algorithm for Multiple-lens Analyses

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal
A microlensing exoplanet search is a unique method for finding planets orbiting distant stars. However, in the past, the method used to analyze microlensing data could not deal with complex lens systems. The number of lenses was limited to three or less.
F. Abe
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Influence of Microlensing on Spectral Anomalies of the Lensed Objects

open access: yesOpen Astronomy, 2011
Here we consider the influence of microlensing on the spectrum of a lensed object with the angular size 5 μas accepting that the composite emission of this object originates from three different regions arranged around its center.
Simić S.   +2 more
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Casting Light on Degeneracies: A Comprehensive Study of Lightcurve Variations in Microlensing Events OGLE-2017-BLG-0103 and OGLE-2017-BLG-0192

open access: yesThe Astronomical Journal
This study investigates orbital parallax in gravitational microlensing events, focusing on OGLE-2017-BLG-0103 and OGLE-2017-BLG-0192. For events with timescales ≤60 days, a Jerk-Parallax degeneracy arises due to high Jerk velocity ( $\tilde{{v}_{j ...
Sarang Shah
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How Rare Are TESS Free-floating Planets?

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal Letters
Recently, Kunimoto et al. claimed that a short-lived signal in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Sector 61 database was possibly caused by a microlensing event with a terrestrial-mass free-floating planet (FFP) lens.
Hongjing Yang   +5 more
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