Gravitational Microlensing

arXiv:2610.11637 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Code: https://github.com/golmschenk/eesunhong

Project page: https://moaprime.massey.ac.nz/moaarchive

Terminology

• Microlensing — 200× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment — 3× in this paper
• Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory — 2× in this paper
• Keck AO Imaging — 2× in this paper
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 2× in this paper
• Siding Spring Observatory — 2× in this paper
• South African Astronomical Observatory — 2× in this paper
• Vista Variables in the Via Lactea — 2× in this paper
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The binary gravitational lens and its extreme cases
• Early recognition of Microlensing Events from Archival Photometry with Machine Learning Methods
• Exoplanet Occurrence Rates from Microlensing Surveys
• How Cumbersome is a Tenth Order Polynomial?: The Case of Gravitational Triple Lens Equation
• Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report

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