The 24-hour night shift: Astronomy from microlensing monitoring networks

PD Sackett

The 24-hour night shift: Astronomy from microlensing monitoring networks

PD Sackett^*

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Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

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Abstract

Scores of on-going microlensing events are now announced yearly by the microlensing discovery teams OGLE, MACHO and EROS. These early warning systems have allowed other international microlensing networks to focus considerable resources on intense photometric and occasionally spectroscopic - monitoring of microlensing events. Early results include: metallicity measurements of main sequence Galactic bulge stars; limb darkening determinations for stars in the Bulge and Small Magellanic Cloud; proper motion measurements that constrain microlens identity; and constraints on Jovian-mass planets orbiting (presumably stellar) lenses. These results and auxiliary science such as variable star studies and optical identification of gamma ray bursts are reviewed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GRAVITATIONAL LENSING: RECENT PROGRESS AND FUTURE GOALS
Editors	TG Brainerd, CS Kochanek
Place of Publication	SAN FRANCISCO
Publisher	ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC
Pages	227-234
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	1-58381-074-9
Publication status	Published - 2001
Event	Conference on Gravitational Lensing - Recent Progress and Future Goals - , Morocco Duration: 25-Jul-1999 → 30-Jul-1999

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Name	ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES
Publisher	ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC
Volume	237

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Other	Conference on Gravitational Lensing - Recent Progress and Future Goals
Country/Territory	Morocco
Period	25/07/1999 → 30/07/1999

Keywords

GRAVITATIONAL LENSING EXPERIMENT
MAGELLANIC-CLOUD
GALACTIC BULGE
MACHO 98-SMC-1
EVENT
PHOTOMETRY
DISCOVERY

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Sackett, PD 2001, The 24-hour night shift: Astronomy from microlensing monitoring networks. in TG Brainerd & CS Kochanek (eds), GRAVITATIONAL LENSING: RECENT PROGRESS AND FUTURE GOALS. ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES, vol. 237, ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC, SAN FRANCISCO, pp. 227-234, Conference on Gravitational Lensing - Recent Progress and Future Goals, Morocco, 25/07/1999.

The 24-hour night shift: Astronomy from microlensing monitoring networks. / Sackett, PD.
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING: RECENT PROGRESS AND FUTURE GOALS. ed. / TG Brainerd; CS Kochanek. SAN FRANCISCO: ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC, 2001. p. 227-234 (ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES; Vol. 237).

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