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Bernhard-1: An Eccentric Binary Periodically Obscured by its Misaligned Circumbinary Disk
Zhecheng Hu, Wei Zhu, Ping Chen +2
Bernhard-1 is a proposed KH 15D-like circumbinary disk occultation (CBO) system, but its binary nature and disk geometry have not previously been confirmed. We present new optical…
Six New Circumbinary Disk Occultation (CBO) Candidates from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Zhecheng Hu, Wei Zhu, Shuming Wang +1
Circumbinary disk occultation (CBO) systems, in which a misaligned circumbinary disk periodically obscures the central binary, provide unique probes of disk structure and dynamics.…
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…
OGLE-2017-BLG-1038: A Possible Brown-dwarf Binary Revealed by Spitzer Microlensing Parallax
Amber Malpas, Michael D. Albrow, Jennifer C. Yee +41
We report the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1038, observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, Korean Microlensing Telescope Network, and Spitzer telesc…
Two Candidate KH 15D-like Systems from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Wei Zhu, Klaus Bernhard, Fei Dai +8
KH 15D contains a circumbinary disk that is tilted relative to the orbital plane of the central binary. The precession of the disk and the orbital motion of the binary together pro…
MagAO observations of the binary microlens OGLE-2014-BLG-1050 prefer the higher-mass solution
Xiaojia Xie, Subo Dong, Wei Zhu +9
We report adaptive-optics (AO) follow-up imaging of OGLE-2014-BLG-1050, which is the second binary microlensing event with space-based parallax measurements. The degeneracy in micr…
Detecting isolated stellar-mass black holes in the absence of microlensing parallax effect
Numa Karolinski, Wei Zhu
Gravitational microlensing can detect isolated stellar-mass black holes (BHs), which are believed to be the dominant form of Galactic BHs according to population synthesis models.…
OGLE-2018-BLG-1269Lb: A Jovian Planet With A Bright, Host
Youn Kil Jung, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski +54
We report the discovery of a planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1269, with planet-host mass ratio , i.e., times smaller than the Jupiter/Su…
Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge
Weicheng Zang, Yossi Shvartzvald, Tianshu Wang +90
We report the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. The ground-based observations yield the detection of finite-sour…
OGLE-2017-BLG-1186: first application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing
Shun-Sheng Li, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +102
We present the analysis of the event OGLE-2017-BLG-1186 from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. This is a remarkable microlensing event because its source is photometrically b…
Spitzer Microlensing of MOA-2016-BLG-231L : A Counter-Rotating Brown Dwarf Binary in the Galactic Disk
Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Jan Skowron +60
We analyze the binary microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-231, which was observed from the ground and from Spitzer. The lens is composed of very low-mass brown dwarfs (BDs) with $M_1 =…
Dark Passengers in Stellar Surveys
Almog Yalinewich, Paz Beniamini, Kenta Hotokezaka +1
We develop stellar population models to predict the number of binaries with a single luminous member is Gaia and Hipparcos. Our models yield dozens of detections of black hole - lu…
Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2017-BLG-0896 Reveals a Counter-Rotating Low-Mass Brown Dwarf
Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Jan Skowron +63
The kinematics of isolated brown dwarfs in the Galaxy, beyond the solar neighborhood, is virtually unknown. Microlensing has the potential to probe this hidden population, as it ca…
OGLE-2016-BLG-1266: A Probable Brown-Dwarf/Planet Binary at the Deuterium Fusion Limit
M. D. Albrow, J. C. Yee, A. Udalski +33
We report the discovery, via the microlensing method, of a new very-low-mass binary system. By combining measurements from Earth and from the Spitzer telescope in Earth-trailing or…
OGLE-2016-BLG-1045: A Test of Cheap Space-Based Microlens Parallaxes
I. -G. Shin, A. Udalski, J. C. Yee +35
Microlensing is a powerful and unique technique to probe isolated objects in the Galaxy. To study the characteristics of these interesting objects based on the microlensing method,…
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…
OGLE-2015-BLG-1482L: the first isolated low-mass microlens in the Galactic bulge
S. -J. Chung, W. Zhu, A. Udalski +35
We analyze the single microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1482 simultaneously observed from two ground-based surveys and from \textit{Spitzer}. The \textit{Spitzer} data exhibit finit…
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…
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…
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…
Spitzer as Microlens Parallax Satellite: Mass and Distance Measurements of Binary Lens System OGLE-2014-BLG-1050L
Wei Zhu, A. Udalski, A. Gould +26
We report the first mass and distance measurement of a caustic-crossing binary system OGLE-2014-BLG-1050L using the space-based microlens parallax method. \emph{Spitzer} captured t…