Microlensing events
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
... 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
... gravitational microlensing events are char- acterized by a smooth, symmetric, and non-repeating shape (Paczy ´nski ...(binary-lens events: Mao & Paczy ´nski 1991) or lensed source stars ...
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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 ...
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Spitzer observations of OGLE 2015 BLG 1212 reveal a new path toward breaking strong microlens degeneracies
... of microlensing events in Spitzer ( or other space-based parallax samples ) to that of the planets detected in these ...space-based microlensing surveys is ...
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Microlensing constraints on the mass of single stars from HST astrometric measurements
... already been used to constrain the distance to lens sys- tems in a few cases using the Spitzer Space Telescope (e.g. Udalski et al. 2015b; Yee et al. 2015). Although such measurements usually require a large distance of ...
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Microlensing for extrasolar planets : improving the photometry
... any microlensing event (any given event will not occur again, unlike the calculable and repeated nature of a transiting event), and in addition the probability of alignment between earth and any given lens and ...
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VBbinarylensing : a public package for microlensing light curve computation
... anomalous events at ...anomalous events found in current ground-based sur- veys to the number of microlensing events expected by future space surveys such as Wide-Field Infrared Survey ...
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The first simultaneous microlensing observations by two space telescopes : Spitzer and Swift reveal a brown dwarf in event OGLE 2015 BLG 1319
... other microlensing-detected BDs in a variety of physical con fi ...published microlensing events with BDs prior to ...binary microlensing events with a BD around a main sequence star ...
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Cloud based e Infrastructure for scheduling astronomical observations
... gravitational microlensing events, hundreds of millions of stars are monitored at least daily by dedicated surveys and if microlensing events are detected or suspected at a given target ...
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Microlensing and dynamical constraints on primordial black hole dark matter with an extended mass function
... crolensing events produced by an extended DHF, we find that these DHFs would have produced ...(RM) microlensing events in the EROS-2 ...EROS-2 microlensing constraint ...
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MOA 2016 BLG 227Lb: a massive planet characterized by combining light curve analysis and Keck AO imaging
... the microlensing program was to monitor the K2C9 superstamp in an automatized mode to improve the event coverage and to secure color information in the SDSS r and Johnson V ...many microlensing ...
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The complete catalogue of light curves in equal mass binary microlensing
... in microlensing events due to binary lenses span an extremely wide variety of forms, characterized by U-shaped caustic crossings and/or additional smoother ...observed events through a clever choice ...
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An analysis of binary microlensing event OGLE 2015 BLG 0060
... binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 using observations collected from 13 different telescopes spread out around the world, providing continuous monitoring of the ...binary microlensing ...
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Mass measurements of isolated objects from space based microlensing
... Spitzer microlensing campaign, only two single- lens microlensing events yielded mass measurements ( OGLE- 2007-BLG-224 and OGLE-2008-BLG-279, Gould et ...10,000 events were discovered and at ...
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OGLE 2017 BLG 1186 : first application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing
... to microlensing events but rare to other exo- planet observations (see ...between microlensing parameters and hyperparameters, demand more careful numerical ex- ...the microlensing parameters ...
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RoboTAP : target priorities for robotic microlensing observations
... transient events from an alert stream of many such events, and to conduct follow-up observations in response, will become increasingly important in ...RoboNet-II microlensing program is a pathfinder ...
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The Spitzer microlensing program as a probe for globular cluster planets : analysis of OGLE 2015 BLG 0448
... to events showing planetary signatures, one can determine whether planets are more common in, for example, the Galactic disk or the bulge ( Calchi Novati et ...170 microlensing events observed during ...
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Simultaneous Gravitational and Refractive Lensing
... (i.e. microlensing and ma- crolensing) as long as the notion of the refractive index in the general relativistic environment is ...of microlensing events and macrolensing images in terms of combined ...
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Microlensing events by Proxima Centauri in 2014 and 2016 : opportunities for mass determination and possible planet detection
... of microlensing events produced by very nearby stars was emphasized by Paczy´nski ...such events the term “mesolensing” has been suggested (Di Stefano 2008), because the large angular Einstein radii ...
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The spitzer microlensing program as a probe for globular cluster planets: analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448
... to events showing planetary signatures, one can determine whether planets are more common in, for example, the Galactic disk or the bulge ( Calchi Novati et ...170 microlensing events observed during ...
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