The population of dark and isolated compact objects in the Galaxy contains critical information related to many of these topics, but is only practically accessible via gravitational microlensing.

We report the discovery of the first candidate microlensing event to be discovered in the direction of the Galactic Bulge. The peak brightness of the candidate event occurred on June 15, 1993. The ...

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26, 2024 — A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white ...