Gravitational Microlensing seen by Gaia Space Satellite

Katarzyna Kruszyńska and Lukasz Wyrzykowski

Up to this day Gaia has detected around 3000 transients through its alerting system called AlertPipe. More than twenty events found this way are gravitational microlensing event candidates. However, at least one event found by other surveys was omitted by AlertPipe. The main goal of this research was to create a new alerting method for Gaia tailored specifically to detect new microlensing events, that would aid an already existing pipeline. An additional goal was to check if any other candidates have been overlooked.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 7, 216-218 (2018)

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