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Lens mass estimate in the Galactic disk extreme parallax microlensing event Gaia19dke
M. Maskoliūnas, Ł. Wyrzykowski, K. Howil +74
We present the results of our analysis of Gaia19dke, an extraordinary microlensing event in the Cygnus constellation that was first spotted by the {\gaia} satellite. This event fea…
Lens parameters for Gaia18cbf -- a long gravitational microlensing event in the Galactic plane
Katarzyna Kruszyńska, Ł. Wyrzykowski, K. A. Rybicki +29
Context: The timescale of a microlensing event scales as a square root of a lens mass. Therefore, long-lasting events are important candidates for massive lenses, including black h…
Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye
Łukasz Wyrzykowski, P. Mróz, K. A. Rybicki +182
Gaia16aye was a binary microlensing event discovered in the direction towards the northern Galactic disc and was one of the first microlensing events detected and alerted to by the…
OGLE-2014-BLG-0289: Precise Characterization of a Quintuple-Peak Gravitational Microlensing Event
A. Udalski, C. Han, V. Bozza +63
We present the analysis of the binary-microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-0289. The event light curve exhibits very unusual five peaks where four peaks were produced by caustic crossi…
Ground-based parallax confirmed by Spitzer: binary microlensing event MOA-2015-BLG-020
Tianshu Wang, Wei Zhu, Shude Mao +83
We present the analysis of the binary gravitational microlensing event MOA-2015-BLG-020. The event has a fairly long timescale (about 63 days) and thus the light curve deviates sig…
Variable stars in the bulge globular cluster NGC 6401
Y. Tsapras, A. Arellano Ferro, D. M. Bramich +7
We present a study of variable stars in globular cluster NGC 6401. The cluster is only $5.3\degr$ away from the Galactic centre and suffers from strong differential reddening. The…
OGLE-2015-BLG-0479LA,B: Binary Gravitational Microlens Characterized by Simultaneous Ground-based and Space-based Observation
C. Han, A. Udalski, A. Gould +60
We present a combined analysis of the observations of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0479 taken both from the ground and by the {\it Spitzer Space Telescope}. T…
Many new variable stars discovered in the core of the globular cluster NGC 6715 (M54) with EMCCD observations
R. Figuera Jaimes, D. M. Bramich, N. Kains +38
We show the benefits of using Electron-Multiplying CCDs and the shift-and-add technique as a tool to minimise the effects of the atmospheric turbulence such as blending between sta…
Exploring the crowded central region of 10 Galactic globular clusters using EMCCDs. Variable star searches and new discoveries
R. Figuera Jaimes, D. M. Bramich, J. Skottfelt +31
Obtain time-series photometry of the very crowded central regions of Galactic globular clusters with better angular resolution than previously achieved with conventional CCDs on gr…
Spitzer Microlensing Program as a Probe for Globular Cluster Planets. Analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448
Radosław Poleski, Wei Zhu, Grant W. Christie +83
The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was int…
Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring
L. Mancini, P. Giacobbe, S. P. Littlefair +33
Context. Photometric monitoring of the variability of brown dwarfs can provide useful information about the structure of clouds in their cold atmospheres. The brown-dwarf binary sy…
Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing
Wei Zhu, S. Calchi Novati, A. Gould +78
We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 \emph{Spitzer} microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax…
RR Lyrae mode switching in globular cluster M 68 (NGC 4590)
N. Kains, D. M. Bramich, A. Arellano Ferro +1
We build on our detailed analysis of time-series observations of the globular cluster M 68 to investigate the irregular pulsational behaviour of four of the RR Lyrae stars in this…
Spitzer Microlens Measurement of a Massive Remnant in a Well-Separated Binary
Y. Shvartzvald, A. Udalski, A. Gould +63
We report the detection and mass measurement of a binary lens OGLE-2015-BLG-1285La,b, with the more massive component having (80% probability). A main-sequence…
A Census of Variability in Globular Cluster M68 (NGC 4590)
N. Kains, A. Arellano Ferro, R. Figuera Jaimes +32
We analyse 20 nights of CCD observations in the V and I bands of the globular cluster M68 (NGC 4590), using these to detect variable objects. We also obtained electron-multiplying…
Searching for variable stars in the cores of five metal rich globular clusters using EMCCD observations
Jesper Skottfelt, D. M. Bramich, R. Figuera Jaimes +31
In this paper, we present the analysis of time-series observations from 2013 and 2014 of five metal rich ([Fe/H] -1) globular clusters: NGC~6388, NGC~6441, NGC~6528, NGC~6638,…
Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster NGC 288: [Fe/H] and Distance
A. Arellano Ferro, D. M. Bramich, S. Giridhar +3
A search for variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 288 was carried out using a time-series of CCD images in the and filters. The photometry of all stellar sources in t…
OGLE-LMC-ECL-11893: The discovery of a long-period eclipsing binary with a circumstellar disk
Subo Dong, Boaz Katz, Jose L. Prieto +10
We report the serendipitous discovery of a disk-eclipse system OGLE-LMC-ECL-11893. The eclipse occurs with a period of 468 days, a duration of about 15 days and a deep (up to ΔI ~1…
A detailed census of variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 6333 (M9) from CCD differential photometry
A. Arellano Ferro, D. M. Bramich, R. Figuera Jaimes +37
We report CCD and time-series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6333 (M9). The technique of difference image analysis has been used, which enables photometric precisio…
Variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 7492. New discoveries and physical parameters determination
R. Figuera Jaimes, A. Arellano Ferro, D. M. Bramich +2
We have performed a photometric V, R, I CCD time-series analysis with a baseline of ~8 years of the outer-halo globular cluster NGC 7492 with the aim of searching for new variables…
Estimating the parameters of globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099) from time-series photometry
N. Kains, D. M. Bramich, A. Arellano Ferro +47
We present the analysis of 26 nights of V and I time-series observations from 2011 and 2012 of the globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099). We used our data to search for variable stars i…
EMCCD photometry reveals two new variable stars in the crowded central region of the globular cluster NGC 6981
Jesper Skottfelt, D. M. Bramich, R. Figuera Jaimes +33
Two previously unknown variable stars in the crowded central region of the globular cluster NGC 6981 are presented. The observations were made using the Electron Multiplying CCD (E…
Constraining the parameters of globular cluster NGC 1904 from its variable star population
N. Kains, D. M. Bramich, R. Figuera Jaimes +3
We present the analysis of 11 nights of V and I time-series observations of the globular cluster NGC 1904 (M 79). Using this we searched for variable stars in this cluster and atte…
Investigation of variable star candidates in the globular cluster NGC 5024 (M53)
D. M. Bramich, A. Arellano Ferro, R. Figuera Jaimes +1
We have performed a careful investigation of the 74 candidate variable stars presented by Safanova & Stalin (2011). For this purpose we used our data base of imaging and light curv…