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most citedMOA-2011-BLG-293Lb: A test of pure survey microlensing planet detections

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physics.ins-det2023★ 13 cited

Analyzing the neutron and -ray emission properties of an americium-beryllium tagged neutron source

Hiroshi Ito, Kohei Wada, Takatomi Yano +5

Americium-beryllium (AmBe), a well-known tagged neutron source, is commonly used for evaluating the neutron detection efficiency of detectors used in ultralow background particle p…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 5 cited

Reanalyses of Anomalous Gravitational Microlensing Events in the OGLE-III Early Warning System Database with Combined Data

J. Jeong, H. Park, C. Han +95

We reanalyze microlensing events in the published list of anomalous events that were observed from the OGLE lensing survey conducted during 2004-2008 period. In order to check the…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 53 cited

Optical Properties of (162173) 1999 JU3: In Preparation for the JAXA Hayabusa 2 Sample Return Mission

Masateru Ishiguro, Daisuke Kuroda, Sunao Hasegawa +31

We investigated the magnitude-phase relation of (162173) 1999 JU3, a target asteroid for the JAXA Hayabusa 2 sample return mission. We initially employed the international Astronom…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 116 cited

A Terrestrial Planet in a ~1 AU Orbit Around One Member of a ~15 AU Binary

A. Gould, A. Udalski, I. -G. Shin +61

We detect a cold, terrestrial planet in a binary-star system using gravitational microlensing. The planet has low mass (2 Earth masses) and lies projected at ~ 0.8 a…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 57 cited

OGLE-2013-BLG-0102LA,B: Microlensing binary with components at star/brown-dwarf and brown-dwarf/planet boundaries

Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +51

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0102. The light curve of the event is characterized by a strong short-term anomaly superposed on a smo…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 10 cited

OGLE-2012-BLG-0455/MOA-2012-BLG-206: Microlensing event with ambiguity in planetary interpretations caused by incomplete coverage of planetary signal

H. Park, C. Han, A. Gould +55

Characterizing a microlensing planet is done from modeling an observed lensing light curve. In this process, it is often confronted that solutions of different lensing parameters r…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 23 cited

OGLE-2008-BLG-355Lb: A Massive Planet around A Late type Star

N. Koshimoto, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +32

We report the discovery of a massive planet OGLE-2008-BLG-355Lb. The light curve analysis indicates a planet:host mass ratio of q = 0.0118 +/- 0.0006 at a separation of 0.877 +/- 0…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 19 cited

Candidate Gravitational Microlensing Events for Future Direct Lens Imaging

C. B. Henderson, H. Park, T. Sumi +76

The mass of the lenses giving rise to Galactic microlensing events can be constrained by measuring the relative lens-source proper motion and lens flux. The flux of the lens can be…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 20 cited

MOA-2013-BLG-220Lb: Massive Planetary Companion to Galactic-Disk Host

J. C. Yee, C. Han, A. Gould +70

We report the discovery of MOA-2013-BLG-220Lb, which has a super-Jupiter mass ratio relative to its host. The proper motion, $μ=12.5\pm 1\, {\rm mas}…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 22 cited

MOA-2008-BLG-379Lb: A Massive Planet from a High Magnification Event with a Faint Source

D. Suzuki, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +31

We report analysis of high microlensing event MOA-2008-BLG-379, which has a strong microlensing anomaly at its peak, due to a massive planet with a mass ratio of q = 6.9 x 10^{-3}.…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 175 cited

A Sub-Earth-Mass Moon Orbiting a Gas Giant Primary or a High Velocity Planetary System in the Galactic Bulge

D. P. Bennett, V. Batista, I. A. Bond +90

We present the first microlensing candidate for a free-floating exoplanet-exomoon system, MOA-2011-BLG-262, with a primary lens mass of M_host ~ 4 Jupiter masses hosting a sub-Eart…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 36 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-328Lb: a sub-Neptune orbiting very late M dwarf ?

K. Furusawa, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +119

We analyze the planetary microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-328. The best fit yields host and planetary masses of Mh = 0.11+/-0.01 M_{sun} and Mp = 9.2+/-2.2M_Earth, corresponding to…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 31 cited

A Super-Jupiter orbiting a late-type star: A refined analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406

Y. Tsapras, J. -Y. Choi, R. A. Street +122

We present a detailed analysis of survey and follow-up observations of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406 based on data obtained from 10 different observatories. Intensive cover…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 66 cited

MOA-2011-BLG-322Lb: a "second generation survey" microlensing planet

Y. Shvartzvald, D. Maoz, S. Kaspi +37

Global "second-generation" microlensing surveys aim to discover and characterize extrasolar planets and their frequency, by means of round-the-clock high-cadence monitoring of a la…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 59 cited

Interpretation of a Short-Term Anomaly in the Gravitational Microlensing Event MOA-2012-BLG-486

K. -H. Hwang, J. -Y. Choi, I. A. Bond +78

A planetary microlensing signal is generally characterized by a short-term perturbation to the standard single lensing light curve. A subset of binary-source events can produce per…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 75 cited

Microlensing Discovery of a Tight, Low Mass-ratio Planetary-mass Object around an Old, Field Brown Dwarf

C. Han, Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski +67

Observations of accretion disks around young brown dwarfs have led to the speculation that they may form planetary systems similar to normal stars. While there have been several de…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 92 cited

The Microlensing Event Rate and Optical Depth Toward the Galactic Bulge from MOA-II

T. Sumi, D. P. Bennett, I. A. Bond +19

We present measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Galactic Bulge based on two years of the MOA-II survey. This sample contains ~1000 microlensing…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 51 cited

Microlensing Discovery of a Population of Very Tight, Very Low-mass Binary Brown Dwarfs

J. -Y. Choi, C. Han, A. Udalski +121

Although many models have been proposed, the physical mechanisms responsible for the formation of low-mass brown dwarfs are poorly understood. The multiplicity properties and minim…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 37 cited

A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251

N. Kains, R. Street, J. -Y. Choi +128

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting micr…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 46 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-073L: An M-Dwarf with a Substellar Companion at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary

R. A. Street, J. -Y. Choi, Y. Tsapras +129

We present an analysis of the anomalous microlensing event, MOA-2010-BLG-073, announced by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics survey on 2010-03-18. This event was remark…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 16 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-523: "Failed Planet" = RS CVn Star

A. Gould, J. C. Yee, I. A. Bond +116

The Galactic bulge source MOA-2010-BLG-523S exhibited short-term deviations from a standard microlensing lightcurve near the peak of an Amax ~ 265 high-magnification microlensing e…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 16 cited

Updated Analysis of a "Dark" Galaxy and its Blue Companion in the Virgo Cloud HI 1225+01

Y. Matsuoka, N. Ienaka, S. Oyabu +2

HI 1225+01 is an intergalactic gas cloud located on the outskirts of Virgo cluster. Its main components are two large clumps of comparable HI masses (M_HI ~ 10^9 Msun) separated by…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 20 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-311: A planetary candidate below the threshold of reliable detection

J. C. Yee, L. -W. Hung, I. A. Bond +123

We analyze MOA-2010-BLG-311, a high magnification (A_max>600) microlensing event with complete data coverage over the peak, making it very sensitive to planetary signals. We fit th…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 9 cited

Using Orbital Effects to Break the Close/wide Degeneracy in Binary-lens Microlensing Events

I. -G. Shin, T. Sumi, A. Udalski +37

Microlensing can provide an important tool to study binaries, especially those composed of faint or dark objects. However, accurate analysis of binary-lens light curves is often ha…