Publications (17)
OGLE-2005-BLG-153: Microlensing Discovery and Characterization of A Very Low Mass Binary
K. -H. Hwang, A. Udalski, C. Han +77
The mass function and statistics of binaries provide important diagnostics of the star formation process. Despite this importance, the mass function at low masses remains poorly kn…
On the Afterglow of the X-Ray Flash of July 23 2003: Photometric evidence for an off-axis Gamma-Ray Burst with an associated Supernova?
J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Sollerman, J. Hjorth +31
We present optical and near-infrared follow-up observations of the X-Ray Flash (XRF) of July 23 2003. Our observations in the R-band cover the temporal range from 4.2 h to 64 days…
Microlensig Binaries with Candidate Brown Dwarf Companions
I. -G. Shin, C. Han, A. Gould +152
Brown dwarfs are important objects because they may provide a missing link between stars and planets, two populations that have dramatically different formation history. In this pa…
The red optical afterglow of GRB 030725
G. Pugliese, P. Møller, J. Gorosabel +6
We present a photometric study of the optical counterpart of the long-duration Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) 030725, which triggered the HETE FREGATE and WXM instruments on July 25th, 2003…
A systematic fitting scheme for caustic-crossing microlensing events
N. Kains, A. Cassan, K. Horne +42
We outline a method for fitting binary-lens caustic-crossing microlensing events based on the alternative model parameterisation proposed and detailed in Cassan (2008). As an illus…
Full characterization of binary-lens event OGLE-2002-BLG-069 from PLANET observations
D. Kubas, A. Cassan, J. P. Beaulieu +25
We analyze the photometric data obtained by PLANET and OGLE on the caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-069. Thanks to the excellent photometric and spectr…
Towards A Census of Earth-mass Exo-planets with Gravitational Microlensing
J. P. Beaulieu, E. Kerins, S. Mao +26
Thirteen exo-planets have been discovered using the gravitational microlensing technique (out of which 7 have been published). These planets already demonstrate that super-Earths (…
Reanalyses of Anomalous Gravitational Microlensing Events in the OGLE-III Early Warning System Database with Combined Data
J. Jeong, H. Park, C. Han +95
We reanalyze microlensing events in the published list of anomalous events that were observed from the OGLE lensing survey conducted during 2004-2008 period. In order to check the…
Microlensing Binaries Discovered through High-Magnification Channel
I. -G. Shin, J. -Y. Choi, S. -Y. Park +148
Microlensing can provide a useful tool to probe binary distributions down to low-mass limits of binary companions. In this paper, we analyze the light curves of 8 binary lensing ev…
Discovery of the Near-IR Afterglow and of the Host of GRB 030528
A. Rau, J. Greiner, S. Klose +24
The rapid dissemination of an arcmin-sized HETE-2 localization of the long-duration X-ray flash GRB 030528 led to a ground-based multi-observatory follow-up campaign. We report the…
OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M-Dwarf Planetary Companion?
Subo Dong, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski +81
We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These…
One or more bound planets per Milky Way star from microlensing observations
A. Cassan, D. Kubas, J. -P. Beaulieu +39
Most known extrasolar planets (exoplanets) have been discovered using the radial velocity or transit methods. Both are biased towards planets that are relativ…
Limb-darkening measurements for a cool red giant in microlensing event OGLE 2004-BLG-482
M. Zub, A. Cassan, D. Heyrovsky +47
Aims: We present a detailed analysis of OGLE 2004-BLG-482, a relatively high-magnification single-lens microlensing event which exhibits clear extended-source effects. These events…
OGLE 2004-BLG-254: a K3 III Galactic Bulge Giant spatially resolved by a single microlens
A. Cassan, J. -P. Beaulieu, P. Fouque +37
We present an analysis of OGLE 2004-BLG-254, a high-magnification and relatively short duration microlensing event in which the source star, a Bulge K3-giant, has been spatially re…
Discovery of a Cool Planet of 5.5 Earth Masses Through Gravitational Microlensing
J. -P. Beaulieu, D. P. Bennett, P. Fouque +46
In the favoured core-accretion model of formation of planetary systems, solid planetesimals accumulate to build up planetary cores, which then accrete nebular gas if they are suffi…
OGLE-2005-BLG-018: Characterization of Full Physical and Orbital Parameters of a Gravitational Binary Lens
I. -G. Shin, A. Udalski, C. Han +55
We present the analysis result of a gravitational binary-lensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-018. The light curve of the event is characterized by 2 adjacent strong features and a single w…
Probing the atmosphere of the bulge G5III star OGLE-2002-BUL-069 by analysis of microlense H alpha line
A. Cassan, J. P. Beaulieu, S. Brillant +25
We discuss high-resolution, time-resolved spectra of the caustic exit of the binary microlensing event OGLE 2002-BUL-69 obtained with UVES on the VLT. The source star is a G5III gi…