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astro-ph.SR2026

A Search For Stellar-mass Black Holes Via Astrometric Microlensing II: 2012-2015 Keck Candidates

Mace J. Huston, Jessica R. Lu, Casey Y. Lam +58

The Milky Way is expected to host 10 stellar-mass black holes with an uncertain binary fraction. The only proven method to detect isolated stellar mass black holes is gra…

astro-ph.SR2026

Candidate Microlensing Brown Dwarfs in Binary Lens Systems from the 2023--2025 Observing Seasons

Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +62

We present detailed light-curve analyses of ten binary-lens microlensing events observed during the 2023--2025 seasons and selected as candidates for hosting brown-dwarf companions…

astro-ph.SR2025

Six binary brown dwarf candidates identified by microlensing

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Ian A. Bond +57

In this study, we analyze microlensing events from the 2023 and 2024 observing seasons to identify cases likely caused by binary systems composed of BDs. By applying criteria that…

astro-ph.SR2025

KMT-2022-BLG-0086: Another binary-lens binary-source microlensing event

Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Jennifer C. Yee +40

We present the analysis of a microlensing event KMT-2022-BLG-0086 of which the overall light curve is not described by a binary-lens single-source (2L1S) model, which suggests the…

astro-ph.SR2025

Analyses of anomalous lensing events detected from the UKIRT microlensing survey

Cheongho Han, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +61

The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) microlensing survey was conducted over four years, from 2016 to 2019, with the goal of serving as a precursor to future near-infrared…

astro-ph.SR2024

KMT-2021-BLG-0284, KMT-2022-BLG-2480, and KMT-2024-BLG-0412: Three microlensing events involving two lens masses and two source stars

Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +59

We carried out a project involving the systematic analysis of microlensing data from the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network survey. The aim of this project is to identify lensing…

astro-ph.SR2024

Microlensing brown-dwarf companions in binaries detected during the 2022 and 2023 seasons

Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Andrzej Udalski +63

Building on previous works to construct a homogeneous sample of brown dwarfs in binary systems, we investigate microlensing events detected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Netw…

astro-ph.SR2024

OGLE-2018-BLG-0971, MOA-2023-BLG-065, and OGLE-2023-BLG-0136: Microlensing events with prominent orbital effects

Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +60

We undertake a project to reexamine microlensing data gathered from high-cadence surveys. The aim of the project is to reinvestigate lensing events with light curves exhibiting int…

astro-ph.SR2024

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…

astro-ph.SR2023

Brown dwarf companions in binaries detected from the 2021 season high-cadence microlensing surveys

Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Ian A. Bond +45

As a part of the project aiming to build a homogeneous sample of binary-lens (2L1S) events containing brown-dwarf (BD) companions, we investigate the 2021 season microlensing data…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 5 cited

Probable brown dwarf companions detected in binary microlensing events during the 2018-2020 seasons of the KMTNet survey

Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Doeon Kim +48

We inspect the microlensing data of the KMTNet survey collected during the 2018--2020 seasons in order to find lensing events produced by binaries with brown-dwarf companions. In o…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

Brown-dwarf companions in microlensing binaries detected during the 2016--2018 seasons

Cheongho Han, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin +60

With the aim of finding microlensing binaries containing brown-dwarf (BD) companions, we investigate the microlensing survey data collected during the 2016--2018 seasons. For this…

astro-ph.SR2022

Proton Penetration Efficiency over a High Altitude Observatory in Mexico

S. Miyake, T. Koi, Y. Muraki +12

In association with a large solar flare on November 7, 2004, the solar neutron detectors located at Mt. Chacaltaya (5,250m) in Bolivia and Mt. Sierra Negra (4,600m) in Mexico recor…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 6 cited

Precision measurement of a brown dwarf mass in a binary system in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0033/MOA-2019-BLG-035

A. Herald, A. Udalski, V. Bozza +89

Context. Brown dwarfs are poorly understood transition objects between stars and planets, with several competing mechanisms having been proposed for their formation. Mass measureme…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 3 cited

Solar Neutron Decay Protons observed in November 7, 2004

Yasushi Muraki, Jose F. Valde-Galicia, Ernesto Ortiz +10

We have found an interesting event registered by the solar neutron telescopes installed at high mountains in Bolivia (5250 m a.s.l.) and Mexico (4600 m a.s.l.). The event was obser…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 12 cited

Candidate Brown-dwarf Microlensing Events with Very Short Timescales and Small Angular Einstein Radii

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +62

Short-timescale microlensing events are likely to be produced by substellar brown dwarfs (BDs), but it is difficult to securely identify BD lenses based on only event timescales $t…

astro-ph.SR2019

Solar Neutrons Observed from September 4 to 10, 2017 by SEDA-FIB

K. Kamiya, K. Koga, H. Matsumoto +4

The SEDA-FIB is a detector designed to measure solar neutrons. This solar neutron detector was operated onboard the ISS on July 16, 2009 and March 31, 2018. Eighteen large solar fl…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 15 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 3 cited

OGLE-2018-BLG-0022: First Prediction of an Astrometric Microlensing Signal from a Photometric Microlensing Event

Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Andrzej Udalski +63

In this work, we present the analysis of the binary microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-0022 that is detected toward the Galactic bulge field. The dense and continuous coverage with t…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 17 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 12 cited

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 =…

astro-ph.SR2019

Angular and Abundance Distribution of High-energy Gamma Rays and Neutrons Simulated by GEANT4 Code for Solar Flares

K. Kamiya, K. Koga, H. Matsumoto +2

In the solar flare observed on June 3, 2012, high energy gamma-rays and neutrons were observed. The event includes a remarkable feature of a high neutron/gamma-ratio in the seconda…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 3 cited

OGLE-2016-BLG-0156: Microlensing Event With Pronounced Microlens-Parallax Effects Yielding Precise Lens Mass Measurement

Youn Kil Jung, Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond +53

We analyze the gravitational binary-lensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-0156, for which the lensing light curve displays pronounced deviations induced by microlens-parallax effects. The li…