Microlensing searches for exoplanets

Y Tsapras - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Gravitational microlensing finds planets through their gravitational influence on the light
coming from a more distant background star. The presence of the planet is then inferred from …

Constraining the masses of microlensing black holes and the mass gap with Gaia DR2

Ł Wyrzykowski, I Mandel - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Gravitational microlensing is sensitive to compact-object lenses in the Milky Way,
including white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes, and could potentially probe a wide …

Predictions of the WFIRST microlensing survey. I. Bound planet detection rates

MT Penny, BS Gaudi, E Kerins… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is the next NASA
astrophysics flagship mission, to follow the James Webb Space Telescope. The WFIRST …

Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: Early mass measurement, free floating planets, and exomoons

E Bachelet, D Specht, M Penny, M Hundertmark… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
As the Kepler mission has done for hot exoplanets, the ESA Euclid and NASA Roman
missions have the potential to create a breakthrough in our understanding of the …

An Earth-mass Planet in a 1 au Orbit around an Ultracool Dwarf

Y Shvartzvald, JC Yee, SC Novati… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
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Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. I. OGLE-2019-BLG-1053Lb, a Buried Terrestrial Planet

W Zang, KH Hwang, A Udalski, T Wang… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to exhume the buried signatures of" missing planetary caustics" in Korea
Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) data, we conducted a systematic anomaly …

Science-driven optimization of the LSST observing strategy

P Marshall, T Anguita, FB Bianco, EC Bellm… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical
imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe …

Criteria for sample selection to maximize planet sensitivity and yield from space-based microlens parallax surveys

JC Yee, A Gould, C Beichman, SC Novati… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Space-based microlens parallax measurements are a powerful tool for understanding planet
populations, especially their distribution throughout the Galaxy. However, if space-based …

Toward a galactic distribution of planets. I. methodology and planet sensitivities of the 2015 high-cadence Spitzer microlens sample

W Zhu, A Udalski, SC Novati, SJ Chung… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze an ensemble of microlensing events from the 2015 Spitzer microlensing
campaign, all of which were densely monitored by ground-based high-cadence survey …

A search for stellar-mass black holes via astrometric microlensing

JR Lu, E Sinukoff, EO Ofek, A Udalski… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
While dozens of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) have been discovered in binary systems,
isolated BHs have eluded detection. Their presence can be inferred when they lens light …