Measuring the abundance of massive black holes in the Milky Way halo

2021/41/B/ST9/00252

Keywords

Descriptors

  • ST9_013: Ciemna materia, ciemna energia

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

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr Przemysław Mróz

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call

OPUS 21 – announced on 2021-03-15

Amount awarded
317 035 PLN
Project start date
2022-01-12
Project end date
2026-01-11
Project duration
48 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Project completed

Project description

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Note — project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (8)

  1. Limits on Planetary-mass Primordial Black Holes from the OGLE High-cadence Survey of the Magellanic Clouds

    Authors:
    Mróz, P., Udalski, A., Szymański, M.K., Soszyński, I., Pietrukowicz, P., Kozłowski, S., Poleski, R., Skowron, J., Ulaczyk, K., Gromadzki, M., Rybicki, K., Iwanek, P., Wrona, M., Mróz, M.J.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal Letters (year: 2024, volume: 976, pages: L19), Publisher: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/ad8e68 – link to the publication
  2. No massive black holes in the Milky Way halo

    Authors:
    Mróz, P., Udalski, A., Szymański, M.K., Soszyński, I., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Pietrukowicz, P., Kozłowski, S., Poleski, R., Skowron, J., Skowron, D., Ulaczyk, K., Gromadzki, M., Rybicki, K., Iwanek, P., Wrona, M., Ratajczak, M.
    Academic press:
    Nature (year: 2024, volume: 632, pages: 749-751), Publisher: Nature Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41586-024-07704-6 – link to the publication
  3. Microlensing Optical Depth and Event Rate toward the Large Magellanic Cloud Based on 20 yr of OGLE Observations

    Authors:
    Mróz, P., Udalski, A., Szymański, M.K., Kapusta, M., Soszyński, I., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Pietrukowicz, P., Kozłowski, S., Poleski, R., Skowron, J., Skowron, D., Ulaczyk, K., Gromadzki, M., Rybicki, K., Iwanek, P., Wrona, M., Ratajczak, M.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (year: 2024, volume: 273, pages: 4), Publisher: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4365/ad452e – link to the publication
  4. Systematic Errors as a Source of Mass Discrepancy in Black Hole Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0462

    Authors:
    Mróz, P., Udalski, A., Gould, A.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal Letters (year: 2022, volume: 937, pages: 24), Publisher: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/ac90bb – link to the publication
  5. Search for Dormant Black Holes in the OGLE Data

    Authors:
    M. Kapusta, P. Mróz
    Academic press:
    Acta Astronomica (year: 2024, volume: 73, pages: 197-226), Publisher: Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.32023/0001-5237/73.3.1 – link to the publication
  6. Millinovae: A New Class of Transient Supersoft X-Ray Sources without a Classical Nova Eruption

    Authors:
    Mróz, P., Król, K., Szegedi, H., Charles, P., Page, K.L., Udalski, A., Buckley, D.A.H., Dewangan, G., Meintjes, P., Szymański, M.K., Soszyński, I., Pietrukowicz, P., Kozłowski, S., Poleski, R., Skowron, J., Ulaczyk, K., Gromadzki, M., Rybicki, K., Iwanek, P., Wrona, M., Mróz, M.J.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal Letters (year: 2024, volume: 977, pages: L37), Publisher: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/ad969b – link to the publication
  7. First Resolution of Microlensed Images of a Binary-lens Event

    Authors:
    Zexuan Wu, Subo Dong, A. Mérand, Christopher S. Kochanek, Przemek Mróz, Jinyi Shangguan, Grant Christie, Thiam-Guan Tan, Thomas Bensby, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, et al.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (year: 2024, volume: 977, pages: 229), Publisher: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ad90b9 – link to the publication
  8. Observations of Microlensed Images with Dual-field Interferometry: On-sky Demonstration and Prospects

    Authors:
    Mróz, P., Dong, S., Merand, A., Shangguan, J., Woillez, J., Gould, A., Udalski, A., Einsenhauer, F., Ryu, Y.-H., Wu, Z. et al.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (year: 2025, volume: 980, pages: 47), Publisher: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b14 – link to the publication

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