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An analysis of binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060
Y. Tsapras, A. Cassan, C. Ranc +83
We present the analysis of stellar binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 based on observations obtained from 13 different telescopes. Intensive coverage of the anomalous par…
A study of light travel time effect in short-period MOA eclipsing binaries via eclipse timing
M. C. A. Li, N. J. Rattenbury, I. A. Bond +23
A sample of 542 eclipsing binaries (EBs) with periods shorter than 2 d were selected from the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) EB catalogue (Li et al. 2017) for ecli…
A Likely Detection of a Two-Planet System in a Low Magnification Microlensing Event
D. Suzuki, D. P. Bennett, A. Udalski +37
We report on the analysis of a microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1722 that showed two distinct short term anomalies. The best fit model to the observed light curves shows that the t…
Spitzer Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2016-BLG-1067: a sub-Jupiter Orbiting an M-dwarf in the Disk
S. Calchi Novati, D. Suzuki, A. Udalski +65
We report the discovery of a sub-Jupiter mass planet orbiting beyond the snow line of an M-dwarf most likely in the Galactic disk as part of the joint Spitzer and ground-based moni…
OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb: First Spitzer Bulge Planet Lies Near the Planet/Brown-Dwarf Boundary
Y. -H. Ryu, J. C. Yee, A. Udalski +106
We report the discovery of OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, which is likely to be the first Spitzer microlensing planet in the Galactic bulge/bar, an assignation that can be confirmed by two…
OGLE-2015-BLG-1459L: The Challenges of Exo-Moon Microlensing
K. -H. Hwang, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond +57
We show that dense OGLE and KMTNet -band survey data require four bodies (sources plus lenses) to explain the microlensing light curve of OGLE-2015-BLG-1459. However, these can…
Kilonova from post-merger ejecta as an optical and near-infrared counterpart of GW170817
Masaomi Tanaka, Yousuke Utsumi, Paolo A. Mazzali +42
Recent detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star (NS) merger event GW170817 and identification of an electromagnetic counterpart provide a unique opportunity to study th…
J-GEM observations of an electromagnetic counterpart to the neutron star merger GW170817
Yousuke Utsumi, Masaomi Tanaka, Nozomu Tominaga +57
The first detected gravitational wave from a neutron star merger was GW170817. In this study, we present J-GEM follow-up observations of SSS17a, an electromagnetic counterpart of G…
Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey for An Optical Counterpart of GW170817
Nozomu Tominaga, Masaomi Tanaka, Tomoki Morokuma +31
We perform a -band survey for an optical counterpart of a binary neutron star coalescence GW170817 with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam. Our untargeted transient search covers d…
A Challenge to Identify an Optical Counterpart of the Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 with Hyper Suprime-Cam
Yousuke Utsumi, Nozomu Tominaga, Masaomi Tanaka +15
We present the results of the detailed analysis of an optical imaging survey conducted using the Subaru / Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), which aims to identify an optical counterpart to…
An Isolated Microlens Observed from K2, Spitzer and Earth
Wei Zhu, A. Udalski, C. Huang +50
We present the result of microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-290, which received observations from the two-wheel Kepler (K2), Spitzer, as well as ground-based observatories. A joint an…
OGLE-2016-BLG-0263L\lowercase{b}: Microlensing Detection of a Very Low-mass Binary Companion Through a Repeating Event Channel
C. Han, A. Udalski, A. Gould +51
We report the discovery of a planet-mass companion to the microlens OGLE-2016-BLG-0263L. Unlike most low-mass companions that were detected through perturbations to the smooth and…
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…
The First Planetary Microlensing Event with Two Microlensed Source Stars
D. P. Bennett, A. Udalski, C. Han +64
We present the analysis of microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-117, and show that the light curve can only be explained by the gravitational lensing of a binary source star system by a…
The First Eclipsing Binary Catalogue from the MOA-II database
M. C. A. Li, N. J. Rattenbury, A. Bond +25
We present the first catalogue of eclipsing binaries in two MOA fields towards the Galactic bulge, in which over 8,000 candidates, mostly contact and semi-detached binaries of peri…
OGLE-2016-BLG-1469L: Microlensing Binary Composed of Brown Dwarfs
C. Han, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +50
We report the discovery of a binary composed of two brown dwarfs, based on the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-1469. Thanks to detection of both finite-source and…
MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb: A Massive Planet Characterized by Combining Lightcurve Analysis and Keck AO Imaging
Naoki Koshimoto, Yossi Shvartzvald, David Bennett +55
We report the discovery of a microlensing planet --- MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb --- with a large planet/host mass ratio of . This event was located near the …
MOA Data Reveal a New Mass, Distance, and Relative Proper Motion for Planetary System OGLE-2015-BLG-0954L
D. P. Bennett, I. A. Bond, F. Abe +26
We present the MOA Collaboration light curve data for planetary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0954, which was previously announced in a paper by the KMTNet and OGLE Collaboratio…
OGLE-2016-BLG-1003: First Resolved Caustic-crossing Binary-source Event Discovered by Second-generation Microlensing Surveys
Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond +50
We report the analysis of the first resolved caustic-crossing binary-source microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-1003. The event is densely covered by the round-the-clock observations…
OGLE-2013-BLG-0132Lb and OGLE-2013-BLG-1721Lb: Two Saturn-mass Planets Discovered around M-dwarfs
Przemek Mroz, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond +37
We present the discovery of two planetary systems consisting of a Saturn-mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf, which were detected in faint microlensing events OGLE-2013-BLG-0132 and OG…
A companion on the planet/brown dwarf mass boundary on a wide orbit discovered by gravitational microlensing
R. Poleski, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond +40
We present the discovery of a substellar companion to the primary host lens in the microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-006. The companion-to-host mass ratio is 0.016, corresponding to…
OGLE-2013-BLG-1761Lb: A Massive Planet Around an M/K Dwarf
Y. Hirao, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +37
We report the discovery and the analysis of the planetary microlensing event, OGLE-2013-BLG-1761. There are some degenerate solutions in this event because the planetary anomaly is…
MOA-2012-BLG-505Lb: A super-Earth mass planet probably in the Galactic bulge
Masayuki Nagakane, Takahiro Sumi, Naoki Koshimoto +27
We report the discovery of a super-Earth mass planet in the microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-505. This event has the second shortest event timescale of days whe…
The Lowest Mass Ratio Planetary Microlens: OGLE 2016-BLG-1195Lb
I. A. Bond, D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi +37
We report discovery of the lowest mass ratio exoplanet to be found by the microlensing method in the light curve of the event OGLE~2016--BLG--1195. This planet revealed itself as a…