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Microlensing Events in Five Years of Photometry from the Zwicky Transient Facility

The Astrophysical Journal
Microlensing has a unique advantage for detecting dark objects in the Milky Way, such as free-floating planets, neutron stars, and stellar-mass black holes.
Ruocheng Zhai, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Shude Mao, Casey Y. Lam, Eric C. Bellm, Josiah Purdum, Frank J. Masci, Avery Wold   +7 more
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MEASURING THE TIME DELAYS IN GRAVITATIONALLY LENSED QUASARS IN THE PRESENCE OF MICROLENSING

Radio Physics and Radio Astronomy, 2014
A method to measure the time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars is proposed, which provides a simple and transparent procedure to eliminate the effects of microlensing events.
V. S. Tsvetkova, V. M. Shulga, L. A. Berdina   +2 more
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Simulating Gravitational Microlensing Events by TESS: Predictions on Statistics and Properties

The Astronomical Journal
We study the statistics and properties of microlensing events that can be detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) based on Monte Carlo simulations. We simulate potential microlensing events from a sample of TESS Candidate Target List
Sedighe Sajadian, Atousa Kalantari, Hossein Fatheddin, Somayeh Khakpash   +3 more
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Microlensing by stars

The Astrophysical Journal, 1995
If stars at the lower end of the main sequence are responsible for the microlensing events observed in the Galactic bulge, then light from the lensing star contributes to the observed brightness. The background and lensing stars generally have different colors, and the relative brightness changes during the microlensing event.
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The Mass Function of Primordial Rogue Planet MACHOs in quasar nanolensing

, 2012
The recent Sumi et al (2010, 2011) detection of free roaming planet mass MACHOs in cosmologically significant numbers recalls their original detection in quasar microlening studies (Schild 1996, Colley and Schild 2003).
Gibson, Carl H., Nieuwenhuizen, Theo M., Schild, Rudolph E.   +2 more
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The MACHO Project Hubble Space Telescope Follow-Up: Preliminary Results on the Location of the Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Source Stars

, 2001
We attempt to determine whether the MACHO microlensing source stars are drawn from the average population of the LMC or from a population behind the LMC by examining the HST color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of microlensing source stars. We present WFPC2 HST
A. B. Tomaney, A. C. Becker, A. J. Drake, B. A. Peterson, C. A. Nelson, C. Alcock, C. W. Stubbs, D. Minniti, D. P. Bennett, D. R. Alves, Fasano G., K. C. Freeman, K. Griest, K. H. Cook, M. Geha, M. J. Lehner, M. R. Pratt, N. Dalal, Oestricher M. O., P. J. Quinn, P. Popowski, Peacock J. A., R. A. Allsman, S. L. Marshall, T. S. Axelrod, T. Vandehei, W. Sutherland   +26 more
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No large population of unbound or wide-orbit Jupiter-mass planets

, 2017
Gravitational microlensing is the only method capable of exploring the entire population of free-floating planets down to Mars-mass objects, because the microlensing signal does not depend on the brightness of the lensing object.
Kozlowski, Szymon, Mroz, Przemek, Pawlak, Michal, Pietrukowicz, Pawel, Poleski, Radoslaw, Skowron, Dorota, Skowron, Jan, Soszynski, Igor, Szymanski, Michal K., Udalski, Andrzej, Ulaczyk, Krzysztof, Wyrzykowski, Lukasz   +11 more
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Polarimetry microlensing of close-in planetary systems

, 2017
A close-in giant planetary (CGP) system has a net polarization signal whose value varies depending on the orbital phase of the planet. This polarization signal is either caused by the stellar occultation or by reflected starlight from the surface of the ...
Hundertmark, Markus, Sajadian, Sedighe
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MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb: Cool Sub-Saturn-mass Planet within Predicted Desert

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
We analyze the MOA-2020-BLG-208 gravitational microlensing event and present the discovery and characterization of a new planet, MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb, with an estimated sub-Saturn mass.
Greg Olmschenk, David P. Bennett, Ian A. Bond, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung, Jennifer C. Yee, Etienne Bachelet, Leading authors, Fumio Abe, Richard K. Barry, Aparna Bhattacharya, Hirosane Fujii, Akihiko Fukui, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishitani Silva, Yoshitaka Itow, Rintaro Kirikawa, Iona Kondo, Naoki Koshimoto, Yutaka Matsubara, Sho Matsumoto, Shota Miyazaki, Brandon Munford, Yasushi Muraki, Arisa Okamura, Clément Ranc, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Yuki Satoh, Takahiro Sumi, Daisuke Suzuki, Taiga Toda, Paul J. Tristram, Aikaterini Vandorou, Hibiki Yama, The MOA Collaboration, Michael D. Albrow, Sang-Mok Cha, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Cheongho Han, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Dong-Jin Kim, Hyoun-Woo Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, The KMTNet Collaboration, Grant Christie, Tony Cooper, John Drummond, Jonathan Green, Steve Hennerley, Jennie McCormick, L. A. G. Monard, Tim Natusch, Ian Porritt, Thiam-Guan Tan, The MicroFUN Collaboration, Shude Mao, Dan Maoz, Matthew T. Penny, Wei Zhu, The MAP Follow-Up Collaboration, V. Bozza, Arnaud Cassan, Martin Dominik, Markus Hundertmark, R. Figuera Jaimes, K. Kruszyńska, K. A. Rybicki, R. A. Street, Y. Tsapras, Joachim Wambsganss, Ł. Wyrzykowski, P. Zieliński, The OMEGA Collaboration, Gioia Rau   +82 more
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Gaia22dkvLb: A Microlensing Planet Potentially Accessible to Radial-velocity Characterization

The Astronomical Journal
We report discovering an exoplanet from following up a microlensing event alerted by Gaia. The event Gaia22dkv is toward a disk source rather than the traditional bulge microlensing fields. Our primary analysis yields a Jovian planet with ${M}_{{\rm{p}}}=
Zexuan Wu, Subo Dong, Tuan Yi, Zhuokai Liu, Kareem El-Badry, Andrew Gould, L. Wyrzykowski, K. A. Rybicki, Etienne Bachelet, Grant W. Christie, L. de Almeida, L. A. G. Monard, J. McCormick, Tim Natusch, P. Zieliński, Huiling Chen, Yang Huang, Chang Liu, A. Mérand, Przemek Mróz, Jinyi Shangguan, Andrzej Udalski, J. Woillez, Huawei Zhang, Franz-Josef Hambsch, P. J. Mikołajczyk, M. Gromadzki, M. Ratajczak, Katarzyna Kruszyńska, N. Ihanec, Uliana Pylypenko, M. Sitek, K. Howil, Staszek Zola, Olga Michniewicz, Michal Zejmo, Fraser Lewis, Mateusz Bronikowski, Stephen Potter, Jan Andrzejewski, Jaroslav Merc, Rachel Street, Akihiko Fukui, R. Figuera Jaimes, V. Bozza, P. Rota, A. Cassan, M. Dominik, Y. Tsapras, M. Hundertmark, J. Wambsganss, K. Bąkowska, A. Słowikowska   +52 more
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