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| Paper: |
Recent Developments in Gravitational Microlensing |
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403, The Variable Universe: A Celebration of Bohdan Paczynski |
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86 |
| Authors: |
Gould, A. |
| Abstract: |
Twenty-one years after Bohdan’s seminal paper launched the field of gravitational microlensing, it has radically diversified from a method narrowly focused on finding dark matter to a very general astronomical tool. Microlensing has now detected 12 planets, including several that are inaccessible by other search methods. It has resolved the surfaces of distant stars, served as a magnifying glass to take spectra of extremely faint objects, and revealed a number of surprising phenomena. I take a sweeping look at this remarkable technique, giving equal weight to its successes and to the tensions that are continuing to propel it forward. |
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