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astro-ph.EP2017★ 94 cited

A Neptune-mass Free-floating Planet Candidate Discovered by Microlensing Surveys

Przemek Mroz, Y. -H. Ryu, J. Skowron +26

Current microlensing surveys are sensitive to free-floating planets down to Earth-mass objects. All published microlensing events attributed to unbound planets were identified base…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 36 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 30 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 38 cited

OGLE-2016-BLG-0613LABb: A Microlensing Planet in a Binary System

C. Han, A. Udalski, A. Gould +37

We present the analysis of OGLE-2016-BLG-0613, for which the lensing light curve appears to be that of a typical binary-lens event with two caustic spikes but with a discontinuous…

astro-ph.SR2017

Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm

G. Terreran, M. L. Pumo, T. -W. Chen +41

We present our study of OGLE-2014-SN-073, one of the brightest Type II SN ever discovered, with an unusually broad lightcurve combined with high ejecta velocities. From our hydrody…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 27 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 35 cited

OGLE-2017-BLG-0173Lb: Low Mass-Ratio Planet in a "Hollywood" Microlensing Event

K. -H. Hwang, A. Udalski, Y. Shvartzvald +34

We present microlensing planet OGLE-2017-BLG-0173Lb, with planet-host mass ratio either or , the lowest or among the lowest e…

astro-ph.SR2017

St 2-22 - another symbiotic star with high-velocity bipolar jets

T. Tomov, R. Zamanov, C. Gałan +1

We report finding high-velocity components in the Hα emission wings of St 2-22 spectra, obtained in 2005. This discovery have encouraged us to start the present study, aiming to sh…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 15 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 336 cited

No large population of unbound or wide-orbit Jupiter-mass planets

Przemek Mroz, Andrzej Udalski, Jan Skowron +9

Gravitational microlensing is the only method capable of exploring the entire population of free-floating planets down to Mars-mass objects, because the microlensing signal does no…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 8 cited

Concluding Henrietta Leavitt's Work on Classical Cepheids in the Magellanic System and Other Updates of the OGLE Collection of Variable Stars

I. Soszyński, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymański +9

More than a century ago, Henrietta Leavitt discovered the first Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds together with the famous period-luminosity relationship revealed by these stars, w…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 10 cited

OGLE-2016-BLG-0693LB: Probing the Brown Dwarf Desert with Microlensing

Y. -H. Ryu, A. Udalski, J. C. Yee +25

We present an analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-0693, based on the survey-only microlensing observations by the OGLE and KMTNet groups. In order to analyze the light cur…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 77 cited

Blue large-amplitude pulsators as a new class of variable stars

P. Pietrukowicz, W. A. Dziembowski, M. Latour +13

Regular intrinsic brightness variations observed in many stars are caused by pulsations. These pulsations provide information on the global and structural parameters of the star. T…

astro-ph.SR2017

Searching for Potential Mergers among 22 500 Eclipsing Binary Stars in the OGLE-III Galactic Bulge Fields

P. Pietrukowicz, I. Soszynski, A. Udalski +8

Inspired by the discovery of the red nova V1309 Sco (Nova Scorpii 2008) and the fact that its progenitor was a binary system with a rapidly decreasing orbital period, we have searc…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 17 cited

OGLE-2016-BLG-0168 Binary Microlensing Event: Prediction and Confirmation of the Micorlens Parallax Effect from Space-based Observation

I. -G. Shin, A. Udalski, J. C. Yee +32

The microlens parallax is a crucial observable for conclusively identifying the nature of lens systems in microlensing events containing or composed of faint (even dark) astronomic…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 7 cited

OGLE-2014-BLG-1112LB: A Microlensing Brown Dwarf Detected Through the Channel of a Gravitational Binary-Lens Event

C. Han, A. Udalski, V. Bozza +15

Due to the nature depending on only the gravitational field, microlensing, in principle, provides an important tool to detect faint and even dark brown dwarfs. However, the number…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 14 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 17 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 10 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 29 cited

Extracting Microlensing Signals from K2 Campaign 9

Wei Zhu, Chelsea Huang, A. Udalski +10

The reduction of the \emph{K2}'s Campaign 9 (K2C9) microlensing data is challenging mostly because of the very crowded field and the unstable pointing of the spacecraft. In this wo…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 21 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 17 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 39 cited

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…