gravitational microlensing
Simulation and modelling of gravitational microlensing events using graphical processing units : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Massey University, Albany (Auckland), New Zealand
... ing gravitational microlensing light ...complex microlensing events. It allows us to model microlensing events with orbital motion effects, which are usually done on a cluster computer, on ...
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Reanalyses of anomalous gravitational microlensing events in the OGLE III early warning system database with combined data
... Light curves of gravitational microlensing events are char- acterized by a smooth, symmetric, and non-repeating shape (Paczy ´nski 1986). However, they often exhibit deviations from the standard form. The ...
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OGLE 2014 BLG 1186 : gravitational microlensing providing evidence for a planet orbiting the foreground star or for a close binary source?
... the microlensing event OGLE-2014- BLG-1186, which not only is of exceptionally long duration but also shows a putative anomaly in the form of a close double ...nature. Gravitational microlensing ...
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A companion on the planet/brown dwarf mass boundary on a wide orbit discovered by gravitational microlensing
... the gravitational microlensing ...result, microlensing enables the discovery of systems that are inaccessible to other ...using microlensing: MOA-2007-BLG-197L (Ranc et ...lens ...
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Limits on compact halo objects as dark matter from gravitational microlensing
... [1] gravitational microlensing has been proven to be a power- ful tool for the detection of the dark matter component in galactic haloes in form of MACHOs and for determining the structure of the Galaxy ...
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Simulation and modelling of gravitational microlensing events using graphical processing units : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Massey University, Albany (Auckland), New Zealand
... ing gravitational microlensing light ...complex microlensing events. It allows us to model microlensing events with orbital motion effects, which are usually done on a cluster computer, on ...
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Riffeser, Arno (2006): Gravitational Microlensing toward the Andromeda Galaxy: A search for Dark Matter in M31. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... design microlensing surveys and were evaluated for line-of-sight distances to the plane of M31 only, ...the microlensing events rate as a function of FWHM timescale and the magnification of the ...
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Candidate gravitational microlensing events for future direct lens imaging
... This “single-epoch” method has been used to estimate the mass of a number of the hosts of planetary microlensing events (e.g., Sumi et al. 2010; Batista et al. 2011). However, there exists the possibility that ...
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A spectroscopic and photometric study of gravitational microlensing events
... The observation of parallax for long duration microlensing events, the effects of an extended source, and the detection of binary microlensing each contain light curve fine structure whi[r] ...
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OGLE 2014 BLG 0289 : precise characterization of a quintuple peak gravitational microlensing event
... The caustic exit occurred at HJD ¢ ~ 6854 , which matched approximately the time predicted by modeling. Follow-up observations were conducted by two groups including the Microlensing Follow-Up Network (μ FUN ) and ...
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The first planetary microlensing event with two microlensed source stars
... Gravitational microlensing has a unique niche among planet discovery methods ( Bennett 2008; Gaudi 2012 ) because of its sensitivity to planets with masses extending to below an Earth mass ( Bennett & ...
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The advantages of using a Lucky Imaging camera for observations of microlensing events
... Gravitational microlensing refers to the bending of light by the gravitational potential of a stellar object (Einstein 1936; Paczy´nski ...of microlensing events, a planet produces anomalies ...
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An analysis of binary microlensing event OGLE 2015 BLG 0060
... of gravitational microlensing occurs when a foreground star gravitationally lenses a luminous background star, causing its brightness to gradually increase, and then gradually decrease, over a period of ...
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Discovery of a gas giant planet in microlensing event OGLE 2014 BLG 1760
... Gravitational microlensing is one of the popular techniques for detecting ...by microlensing, provide the statistics needed to understand the architecture of cold planets beyond the snow line ( Gould ...
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Space based microlensing planet searches
... and gravitational microlensing. Gravitational microlensing is based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity (Gould & Loeb, 1992): a massive object (the lens) will bend the light of a ...
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RoboTAP : target priorities for robotic microlensing observations
... RoboNet-II microlensing program is a pathfinder project which has developed an automated target selection process (RoboTAP) for gravitational microlensing events which are observed in real-time using ...
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The Generation of Gravitational Waves
... D3, 2319 1971 used flat space wave equations to calculate the scattering of plane electromagnetic and gravitational waves by the Newtonian gravitational field of a point mass.... Dl3, 77[r] ...
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Topics in Gravitational Physics: Tidal Coupling in Gravitational Wave Searches and Mach’s Principle
... of gravitational waves (GWs) for low-frequency, space-based GW detectors such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the inspiral of compact objects into massive black holes in the centers of ...
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Study of Variation of Gravitational Constant (G) in the Very Strong Gravitational Field
... gravitation is dependent on the speed of bodies which states that the factor joining the whole Solar system and galaxies all in one piece would have to have higher speed than the velocity of light. At present, no higher ...
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Gravitons into Gravitational Field
... a gravitational field does not have stochastic ...a gravitational field with help of the Einstein’s equation, it is possible to calculate position ab- solutely precisely that contradicts a principle of ...
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