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

  • PD Sackett*
  • *Corresponding author voor dit werk

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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.

Originele taal-2English
TitelGRAVITATIONAL LENSING: RECENT PROGRESS AND FUTURE GOALS
RedacteurenTG Brainerd, CS Kochanek
Plaats van productieSAN FRANCISCO
UitgeverijASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC
Pagina's227-234
Aantal pagina's8
ISBN van geprinte versie1-58381-074-9
StatusPublished - 2001
EvenementConference on Gravitational Lensing - Recent Progress and Future Goals - , Morocco
Duur: 25-jul.-199930-jul.-1999

Publicatie series

NaamASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES
UitgeverijASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC
Volume237

Other

OtherConference on Gravitational Lensing - Recent Progress and Future Goals
Land/RegioMorocco
Periode25/07/199930/07/1999

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