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Microlensing Events in Five Years of Photometry from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Ruocheng Zhai, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Shude Mao +5
Microlensing has a unique advantage for detecting dark objects in the Milky Way, such as free-floating planets, neutron stars, and stellar-mass black holes. Most microlensing surve…
Disentangling the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with Photometric Microlensing Surveys
Scott Ellis Perkins, Peter McGill, William Dawson +8
From the formation mechanisms of stars and compact objects to nuclear physics, modern astronomy frequently leverages surveys to understand populations of objects to answer fundamen…
Natal Kicks from the Galactic Center and Implications on their Environment and the Roman Space Telescope
Carlos Jurado, Smadar Naoz, Casey Y. Lam +1
Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, harbor a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) weighing millions to billions of solar masses. Surrounding these SMBHs are dense regions of…
A re-analysis of the isolated black hole candidate OGLE-2011-BLG-0462/MOA-2011-BLG-191
Casey Y. Lam, Jessica R. Lu
There are expected to be isolated black holes (BHs) in the Milky Way. OGLE-2011-BLG-0462/MOA-2011-BLG-191 (OB110462) is the only such BH with a mass measurement to date…
Roman CCS White Paper: Characterizing the Galactic population of isolated black holes
Casey Y. Lam, Natasha Abrams, Jeff Andrews +34
Although there are estimated to be 100 million isolated black holes (BHs) in the Milky Way, only one has been found so far, resulting in significant uncertainty about their propert…
The Galactic Center with Roman
Sean K. Terry, Matthew W. Hosek, Jessica R. Lu +31
We advocate for a Galactic center (GC) field to be added to the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS). The new field would yield high-cadence photometric and astrometric measur…