Microlensing surveys for exoplanets

BS Gaudi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Unlike most other planet-detection techniques, gravitational microlensing does not rely on
detection of photons from either the host or the planet. Rather, planets are discovered by …

[HTML][HTML] The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets-XXXI. The M-dwarf sample

X Bonfils, X Delfosse, S Udry, T Forveille… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Context. Searching for planets around stars with different masses helps us to assess the
outcome of planetary formation for different initial conditions. The low-mass M dwarfs are …

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 …

Black hole, neutron star and white dwarf candidates from microlensing with OGLE-III

Ł Wyrzykowski, Z Kostrzewa-Rutkowska… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Most stellar remnants so far have been found in binary systems, where they interact with
matter from their companions. Isolated neutron stars and black holes are difficult to find as …

The exoplanet mass-ratio function from the MOA-II survey: discovery of a break and likely peak at a neptune mass

D Suzuki, DP Bennett, T Sumi, IA Bond… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of the statistical analysis of planetary signals discovered in MOA-II
microlensing survey alert system events from 2007 to 2012. We determine the survey …

MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb: A test of pure survey microlensing planet detections

JC Yee, Y Shvartzvald, A Gal-Yam… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Because of the development of large-format, wide-field cameras, microlensing surveys are
now able to monitor millions of stars with sufficient cadence to detect planets. These new …

The separation distribution of ultrawide binaries across galactic populations

HJ Tian, K El-Badry, HW Rix… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an extensive and pure sample of ultrawide binary stars with separations of
0.01≲ s/pc≲ 1 in the solar neighborhood. Using data from Gaia DR2, we define kinematic …

CONFIRMATION OF THE OGLE-2005-BLG-169 PLANET SIGNATURE AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS WITH LENS–SOURCE PROPER MOTION DETECTION

V Batista, JP Beaulieu, DP Bennett… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present Keck NIRC2 high angular resolution adaptive optics observations of the
microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb, taken 8.21 years after the discovery of this …

Binary microlensing event OGLE-2009-BLG-020 gives verifiable mass, distance, and orbit predictions

J Skowron, A Udalski, A Gould, S Dong… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first example of binary microlensing for which the parameter measurements
can be verified (or contradicted) by future Doppler observations. This test is made possible …

OGLE-2019-BLG-0960 Lb: the smallest microlensing planet

JC Yee, W Zang, A Udalski, YH Ryu… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the analysis of OGLE-2019-BLG-0960, which contains the smallest mass-ratio
microlensing planet found to date (q= 1.2–1.6× 10− 5 at 1σ). Although there is substantial …