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Detection of astrometric microlensing events with the satellite mission Gaia - a new window to studying dark matter in our Galaxy.

2012/06/M/ST9/00172

Keywords:

astrometry dark matter gravitational microlensing

Descriptors:

  • ST9_13: Dark matter, dark energy
  • ST9_8: The Galaxy
  • ST9_18: Observational and satellite techniques, telescopes, detectors

Panel:

ST9 - Astronomy and space science: astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, solar system, planetary systems, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, space science, instrumentation

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Fizyki, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Łukasz Wyrzykowski 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: HARMONIA 3 - announced on 2012-06-15

Amount awarded: 450 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-04-09

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2016-04-08

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (6)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (2)
  1. Spitzer Microlens Measurement of a Massive Remnant in a Well-separated Binary
    Authors:
    Shvartzvald Y. i in. w tym: Wyrzykowski Ł.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2015, tom: 814, strony: 111-123), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/111 - link to the publication
  2. Gaia transient detection efficiency: hunting for nuclear transients
    Authors:
    Blagorodnova N., van Velzen S., Harrison D., Koposov S., Mattila S., Campbell H., Walton N., Wyrzykowski Ł.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2016, tom: 455, strony: 603-617), Wydawca: Royal Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stv2308 - link to the publication
  3. Transiting Planets Orbiting Source Stars in Microlensing Events
    Authors:
    K. Rybicki, L. Wyrzykowski
    Academic press:
    Acta Astronomica (rok: 2014, tom: 64, strony: 65-75), Wydawca: Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy
    Status:
    Published
  4. Black hole, neutron star and white dwarf candidates from microlensing with OGLE-III
    Authors:
    Wyrzykowski Ł., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska Z., Skowron J, Rybicki K., i in.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2016, tom: 458, strony: 3012-3026), Wydawca: Royal Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stw426 - link to the publication
  5. GS-TES: the Gaia spectrophotometry transient events classifier
    Authors:
    N.Blagorodnova, S. Koposov, L. Wyrzykowski, M. Irwin, N.A. Walton
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2014, tom: 442, strony: 327-342), Wydawca: Royal Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stu837 - link to the publication
  6. Total eclipse of the heart: the AM CVn Gaia14aae/ASSASN-14cn
    Authors:
    Campbell H. i in. w tym Wyrzykowski Ł., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska Z., Rybicki K.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2015, tom: 452, strony: 1060-1067), Wydawca: Royal Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stv1224 - link to the publication
  1. First year of the Gaia Science Alerts
    Authors:
    Wyrzykowski Ł.
    Conference:
    37 Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Astronomicznego (rok: 2016, ), Wydawca: PTA
    Data:
    konferencja 7-10 września 2015
    Status:
    Published
  2. Microlensing by single black-holes in the Galaxy
    Authors:
    Wyrzykowski Ł., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska Z., Rybicki K.
    Conference:
    37 Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Astronomicznego (rok: 2016, ), Wydawca: PTA
    Data:
    konferencja 7-10 września 2015
    Status:
    Published