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

2021/41/B/ST9/00252

Keywords:

dark matter gravitational microlensing black holes

Descriptors:

  • ST9_013:

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

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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 (Y-m-d): 2022-01-12

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2026-01-11

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (9)
  1. 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 (rok: 2024, tom: 977, strony: L37), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/ad969b - link to the publication
  2. 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 (rok: 2025, tom: 980, strony: 47), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b14 - link to the publication
  3. 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 (rok: 2024, tom: 977, strony: 229), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ad90b9 - link to the publication
  4. Search for Dormant Black Holes in the OGLE Data
    Authors:
    M. Kapusta, P. Mróz
    Academic press:
    Acta Astronomica (rok: 2024, tom: 73, strony: 197-226), Wydawca: Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.32023/0001-5237/73.3.1 - link to the publication
  5. 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 (rok: 2022, tom: 937, strony: 24), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/ac90bb - link to the publication
  6. 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 (rok: 2024, tom: 976, strony: L19), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/ad8e68 - link to the publication
  7. 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 (rok: 2024, tom: 632, strony: 749-751), Wydawca: Nature Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41586-024-07704-6 - link to the publication
  8. 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 (rok: 2024, tom: 273, strony: 4), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4365/ad452e - link to the publication
  9. Search for Dormant Black Holes in the OGLE Data
    Authors:
    M. Kapusta, P. Mróz
    Academic press:
    Acta Astronomica (rok: 2024, tom: 73, strony: 197-226), Wydawca: Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.32023/0001-5237/73.3.1 - link to the publication