Dijana Dominis - Searching for extrasolar planets with gravitational microlensing
Seminar
IFAE
Since the first discoveries of extrasolar planets in early 90-ies, a large number of exoplanet discoveries has been announced and published, using different astrophysical methods. But what did we actually learn about them?
Despite of the relatively small fraction in the overall number of discoveries, the method of gravitational microlensing using ground-based optical telescopes has yielded some of most exciting results in the field, such as discovery of the first "Earth-like" (cold solid low-mass) exoplanet, first statistics of mass distribution of planets in the Milky Way, detections of free-floating planets, and precise mass measurement of an exoplanet.
A brief overview of different exoplanet searching methods will be given it the talk, with emphasis on the highlight results obtained by the PLANET (Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork) telescope network.
Alexis Menéndez Vázquez
Anil Sonay
Chaitanya Priyadarshi
Elena Moretti
Imma Riu
Isaac Esparbé
Jouvin léa
Lluïsa-M. Mir
Machiel Kolstein
Manel Martinez
Marcel Algueró
Marti Verdaguer
Matteo Cavalli-Sforza
Oscar Martinez Carmona
Pere Masjuan
Pilar Casado
Sidika Merve Colak
Thorsten Lux
Tianya Wu
Umut Demirbozan