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most citedThe MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of LMC Observations

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astro-ph2008★ 26 cited

First Results From The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS)

Z. -W. Zhang, F. B. Bianco, M. J. Lehner +22

Results from the first two years of data from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) are presented. Stars have been monitored photometrically at 4 Hz or 5 Hz to search fo…

astro-ph2008★ 30 cited

The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey: The Multi-Telescope Robotic Observatory

M. J. Lehner, C. -Y. Wen, J. -H. Wang +16

The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) operates four fully automatic telescopes to search for occultations of stars by Kuiper Belt Objects. It is a versatile facility tha…

astro-ph2004★ 31 cited

Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events from the MACHO Collaboration

C. L. Thomas, K. Griest, P. Popowski +21

We present a catalog of 450 high signal-to-noise microlensing events observed by the MACHO collaboration between 1993 and 1999. The events are distributed throughout our fields and…

astro-ph2004★ 117 cited

Microlensing Optical Depth towards the Galactic Bulge Using Clump Giants from the MACHO Survey

P. Popowski, K. Griest, C. L. Thomas +20

Using 7 years of MACHO survey data, we present a new determination of the optical depth to microlensing towards the Galactic bulge. We select the sample of 62 microlensing events (…

astro-ph2003★ 45 cited

The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Variable Star Inventory. XIII. Fourier Parameters for the First Overtone RR Lyrae Variables and the LMC Distance

C. Alcock, D. R. Alves, T. S. Axelrod +21

Fourier coefficents have been derived for the and light curves of 785 overtone RR Lyrae variables in 16 MACHO fields near the bar of the LMC. The and coef…

astro-ph2003★ 1 cited

Recent Microlensing Results from the MACHO Project

P. Popowski, C. A. Nelson, D. P. Bennett +19

We describe a few recent microlensing results from the MACHO Collaboration. The aim of the MACHO Project was the identification and quantitative description of dark and luminous ma…