Gravitational microlensing is an astronomical phenomenon caused by the gravitational lens effect. It can be used to detect objects that range from the...
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planet discovered using the transit method (OGLE-TR-56b) and gravitational microlensing. The project has been led by professor Andrzej Udalski since its...
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as the gravitational microlensing effect increases with the planet-to-star mass ratio. The main advantages of the gravitational microlensing method are...
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Jovian-mass Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2005-BLG-071", the first extra-solar planet detections using microlensing. Gravitational lensing on arxiv.org...
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MACHO Project (section Microlensing)
Objects (MACHOs), using the method of gravitational microlensing. It was one of three first-generation microlensing searches started in the early 1990s...
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OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (category Exoplanets detected by microlensing)
NETwork/Robotic Telescope Network (PLANET/Robonet), Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), and Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) made a joint...
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best known for her foundational contributions to the theory of gravitational microlensing, a technique for the discovery of exoplanets. Rhie was born to...
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further than that distance have not been detected. A microlensing event in the Twin Quasar gravitational lensing system was observed in 1996, by R. E. Schild...
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MicroFUN (redirect from Microlensing Follow-Up Network)
magnification gravitational microlensing events in the Milky Way's Galactic Bulge. Its goal is to detect extrasolar planets via microlensing of the parent star...
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K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb (category Exoplanets detected by microlensing)
being discovered on January 4, 2022, thanks to an effect of gravitational microlensing from a series of data recorded in 2016, then revealed on March...
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