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most citedReal-Time Difference Imaging Analysis of MOA Galactic Bulge Observations During 2000

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astro-ph.EP2019★ 11 cited

OGLE-2013-BLG-0911Lb: A Secondary on the Brown-Dwarf Planet Boundary around an M-dwarf

Shota Miyazaki, Takahiro Sumi, David P. Bennett +92

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0911. The best-fit solutions indicate the binary mass ratio of q~0.03 which differs from that reported i…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 6 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 8 cited

OGLE-2017-BLG-0039: Microlensing Event with Light from the Lens Identified from Mass Measurement

C. Han, Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski +58

We present the analysis of the caustic-crossing binary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0039. Thanks to the very long duration of the event, with an event time scale $t_{\rm E}\sim…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 22 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 23 cited

MOA-2015-BLG-337: A Planetary System with a Low-mass Brown Dwarf/Planetary Boundary Host, or a Brown Dwarf Binary

S. Miyazaki, T. Sumi, D. P. Bennett +59

We report the discovery and the analysis of the short timescale binary-lens microlensing event, MOA-2015-BLG-337. The lens system could be a planetary system with a very low mass h…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 7 cited

OGLE-2017-BLG-0482Lb: A Microlensing Super-Earth Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star

C. Han, Y. Hirao, A. Udalski +62

We report the discovery of a planetary system in which a super-earth orbits a late M-dwarf host. The planetary system was found from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-201…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 20 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 24 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 10 cited

OGLE-2014-BLG-0289: Precise Characterization of a Quintuple-Peak Gravitational Microlensing Event

A. Udalski, C. Han, V. Bozza +63

We present the analysis of the binary-microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-0289. The event light curve exhibits very unusual five peaks where four peaks were produced by caustic crossi…

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★ 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★ 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★ 25 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 5 cited

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…

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.EP2017★ 45 cited

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 …

astro-ph.EP2017★ 10 cited

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…

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.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.EP2017★ 7 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 84 cited

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…