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astro-ph.SR2026

Eppur binaria non è esclusa: Pulsations in CZ Tuc appear to be tidally excited by its veiled companion

Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański, Patryk Iwanek, Jim Fuller +3

Long secondary periods (LSPs), observed in about one-third of pulsating red giants, remain unexplained despite decades of study, with binarity and non-radial oscillations as the le…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Search For Stellar-mass Black Holes Via Astrometric Microlensing II: 2012-2015 Keck Candidates

Mace J. Huston, Jessica R. Lu, Casey Y. Lam +58

The Milky Way is expected to host 10 stellar-mass black holes with an uncertain binary fraction. The only proven method to detect isolated stellar mass black holes is gra…

astro-ph.SR2026

Incorporating physical source parameters into microlensing modeling

Mateusz J. Mróz, Radosław Poleski, Andrzej Udalski +14

Modeling of complex microlensing events suffers from many difficult-to-disentangle degeneracies. This is especially the case for orbital motion of the source in a binary system, th…

astro-ph.SR2026

Eppur binaria non é esclusa: Gaia astrometry does not disfavor a binary origin for Long Secondary Periods

Patryk Iwanek, Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański, Dorota M. Skowron +2

We present an independent reassessment of the nearby long secondary period (LSP) stars analyzed by Shariat et al. (2026). By inspecting long-term All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) li…

astro-ph.SR2026

Four-Body Gravitational Microlensing Events Involving Both a Binary Lens and a Binary Source

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +31

We present detailed analyses of three anomalous microlensing events--KMT-2021-BLG-0209, KMT-2021-BLG-0901, and OGLE-2025-BLG-0356--identified from a systematic re-examination of KM…

astro-ph.SR2026

Thirty Circumbinary Disk Occultation Systems (KH 15D-like stars) from the OGLE Project

M. A. Urbanowicz, I. Soszyński, P. Pietrukowicz +14

We present a catalog of 30 stars that are candidates for KH 15D-like binary systems, in which the observed brightness variations are caused by a circumbinary dusty disk that period…

astro-ph.SR2026

Candidate Microlensing Brown Dwarfs in Binary Lens Systems from the 2023--2025 Observing Seasons

Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +62

We present detailed light-curve analyses of ten binary-lens microlensing events observed during the 2023--2025 seasons and selected as candidates for hosting brown-dwarf companions…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Bright Long Secondary Period Stars for Follow-up Observations

P. Iwanek, D. M. Skowron, G. Pojmański +1

Long secondary period (LSP) variable stars are a subclass of long-period variables (LPV) that exhibit additional long-term variability alongside pulsations. Despite being observed…

astro-ph.SR2025

Six binary brown dwarf candidates identified by microlensing

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Ian A. Bond +57

In this study, we analyze microlensing events from the 2023 and 2024 observing seasons to identify cases likely caused by binary systems composed of BDs. By applying criteria that…

astro-ph.SR2025

Doubling the Number of Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators: Final Results of Searches for BLAPs in the OGLE Inner Galactic Bulge Fields

J. Borowicz, P. Pietrukowicz, J. Skowron +13

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are rare short-period (80 min) pulsating variable stars exhibiting large-amplitude brightness variations (typically between 0.1 and…

astro-ph.SR2025

Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +27

We investigated microlensing events detected by the OGLE and KMTNet surveys during the 2024 observing season, focusing on those that exhibit very complex anomaly features. Through…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Variable Sky Through the OGLE Eye

Patryk Iwanek

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) is one of the most productive and influential photometric sky surveys in the history of observational astronomy. Originally desi…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Ultimate I-band Calibration of the TRGB Standard Candle

A. Udalski, D. M. Skowron, J. Skowron +13

We present the ultimate I-band calibration of the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) standard candle. Our calibration is based on photometry from the outer parts of the Large Magel…

astro-ph.SR2025

Asteroseismology of Long-Period Variables with OGLE-IV data: Using Global Seismic Parameters as Luminosity Indicators

Qiang Xiong, Tanda Li, Jie Yu +19

Long-period variables (LPVs) are high-luminosity red giants or supergiants with pulsation periods ranging from days to years. Many LPVs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Gala…

astro-ph.SR2025

The OGLE Collection of Variable Stars. Over 75 000 Eclipsing and Ellipsoidal Binary Systems in the Magellanic Clouds

M. Głowacki, I. Soszyński, A. Udalski +14

We present an updated collection of eclipsing and ellipsoidal binary systems in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC), as observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensin…

astro-ph.SR2025

Analyses of anomalous lensing events detected from the UKIRT microlensing survey

Cheongho Han, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +61

The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) microlensing survey was conducted over four years, from 2016 to 2019, with the goal of serving as a precursor to future near-infrared…

astro-ph.SR2024

KMT-2021-BLG-0284, KMT-2022-BLG-2480, and KMT-2024-BLG-0412: Three microlensing events involving two lens masses and two source stars

Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +59

We carried out a project involving the systematic analysis of microlensing data from the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network survey. The aim of this project is to identify lensing…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

Millinovae: A New Class of Transient Supersoft X-ray Sources without a Classical Nova Eruption

Przemek Mróz, Krzysztof Król, Hélène Szegedi +18

Some accreting binary systems containing a white dwarf (such as classical novae or persistent supersoft sources) are seen to emit low-energy X-rays with temperatures of ~10^6 K and…

astro-ph.SR2024

Microlensing brown-dwarf companions in binaries detected during the 2022 and 2023 seasons

Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Andrzej Udalski +63

Building on previous works to construct a homogeneous sample of brown dwarfs in binary systems, we investigate microlensing events detected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Netw…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

The OGLE Collection of Variable Stars: Over 18 000 Rotating Variables toward the Galactic Bulge

P. Iwanek, I. Soszyński, K. Stępień +14

Stellar rotation, a key factor influencing stellar structure and evolution, also drives magnetic activity, which is manifested as spots or flares on stellar surface. Here, we prese…

astro-ph.SR2024

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators and Other Short-Period Variable Stars in OGLE-IV Fields of the Outer Galactic Bulge

J. Borowicz, P. Pietrukowicz, J. Skowron +13

In this work, we search the OGLE-IV outer Galactic bulge fields for short-period variable objects. The investigation focuses on unexplored timescales roughly below one hour in an a…

astro-ph.SR2024

OGLE-2018-BLG-0971, MOA-2023-BLG-065, and OGLE-2023-BLG-0136: Microlensing events with prominent orbital effects

Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +60

We undertake a project to reexamine microlensing data gathered from high-cadence surveys. The aim of the project is to reinvestigate lensing events with light curves exhibiting int…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Observational Parameters of Blue Large-amplitude Pulsators

P. Pietrukowicz, M. Latour, I. Soszynski +15

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a recently discovered class of short-period pulsating variable stars. In this work, we present new information on these stars based on ph…

astro-ph.SR2024

OGLE-2015-BLG-0845L: A low-mass M dwarf from the microlensing parallax and xallarap effects

Zhecheng Hu, Wei Zhu, Andrew Gould +51

We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0845, which was affected by both the microlensing parallax and xallarap effects. The former was detected via the sim…