Tsapras, Y., Street, R., Horne, K., Snodgrass, C., Dominik, M., Allan, A., ...
RoboNet-II uses a global network of robotic telescopes to perform follow-up observations of microlensing events in the Galactic Bulge. The current network consists of three 2m telescopes located in...
Bennett, D. P., Bond, I. A., Udalski, A., Sumi, T., Abe, F., Fukui, A., ...
We report the detection of an extrasolar planet of mass ratio q ~ 2 x 10^(-4) in microlensing event MOA-2007-BLG-192. The best fit microlensing model shows both the microlensing parallax and finite...
Marquette, J. B., Tisserand, P., Francois, P., Beaulieu, J. P., Doublier, V., Lesquoy, E., ...
For seven years, the EROS-2 project obtained a mass of photometric data on variable stars. We present a peculiar Cepheid-like star, in the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which demonstrates...
OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M-Dwarf Planetary Companion? (2008)
Dong, Subo, Gould, Andrew, Udalski, Andrzej, Anderson, Jay, Christie, G. W., Gaudi, B. S., ...
We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include...
Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn Analog with Gravitational Microlensing (2008)
Gaudi, B. S., Bennett, D. P., Udalski, A., Gould, A., Christie, G. W., Maoz, D., ...
Searches for extrasolar planets have uncovered an astonishing diversity of planetary systems, yet the frequency of solar system analogs remains unknown. The gravitational microlensing planet search...
Fouque, P., Arriagada, P., Storm, J., Barnes, T. G., Nardetto, N., Merand, A., ...
The universality of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relations has been under discussion since metallicity effects have been assumed to play a role in the value of the intercept and, more recently, of...
Limits on Galactic Dark Matter with 5 Years of EROS SMC Data (2007)
Afonso, C., Albert, J.N., Andersen, J., Ansari, R., Aubourg, E., Bareyre, P., ...
Five years of EROS data towards the Small Magellanic Cloud have been searched for gravitational microlensing events, using a new, more accurate method to assess the impact of stellar blending on the...
Bulge Microlensing Optical Depth from EROS 2 observations (2007)
Afonso, C., Albert, J N., Alard, C., Andersen, J., Ansari, R., Aubourg, E., ...
We present a measurement of the microlensing optical depth toward the Galactic bulge based on the analysis of 15 contiguous1 square degrees fields centered on (l=2.5 deg, b=-4.0 deg) and containing...
Bulge Microlensing Optical Depth from EROS 2 observations (2007)
Afonso, C., Albert, J N., Alard, C., Andersen, J., Ansari, R., Aubourg, E., ...
We present a measurement of the microlensing optical depth toward the Galactic bulge based on the analysis of 15 contiguous1 square degrees fields centered on (l=2.5 deg, b=-4.0 deg) and containing...
Limits on Galactic Dark Matter with 5 Years of EROS SMC Data (2007)
Afonso, C., Albert, J.N., Andersen, J., Ansari, R., Aubourg, E., Bareyre, P., ...
Five years of EROS data towards the Small Magellanic Cloud have been searched for gravitational microlensing events, using a new, more accurate method to assess the impact of stellar blending on the...
Bulge Microlensing Optical Depth from EROS 2 observations (2007)
Afonso, C., Albert, J N., Alard, C., Andersen, J., Ansari, R., Aubourg, E., ...
We present a measurement of the microlensing optical depth toward the Galactic bulge based on the analysis of 15 contiguous1 square degrees fields centered on (l=2.5 deg, b=-4.0 deg) and containing...
Limits on Galactic Dark Matter with 5 Years of EROS SMC Data (2007)
Afonso, C., Albert, J.N., Andersen, J., Ansari, R., Aubourg, E., Bareyre, P., ...
Five years of EROS data towards the Small Magellanic Cloud have been searched for gravitational microlensing events, using a new, more accurate method to assess the impact of stellar blending on the...
EROS 2 photometry of probable R Coronae Borealis stars in the small Magellanic cloud (2006)
Tisserand, P., Marquette, J.B., Beaulieu, J.P., De Laverny, P., Lesquoy, E., Milsztajn, A., ...
EROS 2 (Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres) conducted a survey of the SMC between July 1996 and February 2003 in two EROS broad-band colours, V_E and R_E. The photometric data of 4.2 million...
EROS 2 photometry of probable R Coronae Borealis stars in the small Magellanic cloud (2006)
Tisserand, P., Marquette, J.B., Beaulieu, J.P., De Laverny, P., Lesquoy, E., Milsztajn, A., ...
EROS 2 (Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres) conducted a survey of the SMC between July 1996 and February 2003 in two EROS broad-band colours, V_E and R_E. The photometric data of 4.2 million...
EROS 2 photometry of probable R Coronae Borealis stars in the small Magellanic cloud (2006)
Tisserand, P., Marquette, J.B., Beaulieu, J.P., De Laverny, P., Lesquoy, E., Milsztajn, A., ...
EROS 2 (Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres) conducted a survey of the SMC between July 1996 and February 2003 in two EROS broad-band colours, V_E and R_E. The photometric data of 4.2 million...
Type Ia supernova rate at a redshift of ~ 0.1 (2006)
Blanc, G., Afonso, C., Alard, C., Albert, J.N., Aldering, G., Amadon, A., ...
We present the type Ia rate measurement based on two EROS supernova search campaigns (in 1999 and 2000). Sixteen supernovae identified as type Ia were discovered. The measurement of the detection...
Type Ia supernova rate at a redshift of ~ 0.1 (2006)
Blanc, G., Afonso, C., Alard, C., Albert, J.N., Aldering, G., Amadon, A., ...
We present the type Ia rate measurement based on two EROS supernova search campaigns (in 1999 and 2000). Sixteen supernovae identified as type Ia were discovered. The measurement of the detection...
Type Ia supernova rate at a redshift of ~ 0.1 (2006)
Blanc, G., Afonso, C., Alard, C., Albert, J.N., Aldering, G., Amadon, A., ...
We present the type Ia rate measurement based on two EROS supernova search campaigns (in 1999 and 2000). Sixteen supernovae identified as type Ia were discovered. The measurement of the detection...
OGLE 2004-BLG-254: a K3 III Galactic Bulge Giant spatially resolved by a single microlens (2006)
Cassan, A., Fouque, P., Brillant, S., Dominik, M., Greenhill, J., ...
We present an analysis of OGLE 2004-BLG-254, a high-magnification and relatively short duration microlensing event in which the source star, a Bulge K3-giant, has been spatially resolved by a...
Discovery of a Cool Planet of 5.5 Earth Masses Through Gravitational Microlensing (2006)
Bennett, D. P., Fouque, P., Williams, A., Dominik, M., Jorgensen, U. G., ...
In the favoured core-accretion model of formation of planetary systems, solid planetesimals accumulate to build up planetary cores, which then accrete nebular gas if they are sufficiently massive....
Storm, J., Gieren, W., Fouque, P., Barnes III, T. G., Gomez, M.
We derive individual distances to six Cepheids in the young populous star cluster NGC1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud employing the near-IR surface brightness technique. With six stars available at...
Gieren, W., Storm, J., Barnes III, T. G., Fouque, P., Pietrzynski, G., Kienzle, F.
We have applied the infrared surface brightness (ISB) technique to derive distances to 13 Cepheids in the LMC which span a period range from 3 to 42 days. From the absolute magnitudes of the...
Full characterization of binary-lens event OGLE-2002-BLG-069 from PLANET observations (2005)
Kubas, D., Cassan, A., Beaulieu, J. P., Coutures, C., Dominik, M., Albrow, M. D., ...
We analyze the photometric data obtained by PLANET and OGLE on the caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-069. Thanks to the excellent photometric and spectroscopic coverage of...
Gieren, W., Pietrzynski, G., Walker, A., Bresolin, F., Minniti, D., Kudritzki, R. P., ...
In a previous paper, we reported on the discovery of more than a hundred new Cepheid variables in the Sculptor Group spiral NGC 300 from wide-field images taken in the B and V photometric bands at...
Type Ia supernova rate at a redshift of ~;0.1 (2004)
Blanc, G., Afonso, C., Alard, C., Albert, J.N., Aldering, G., Amadon, A., ...
Type Ia supernova rate at a redshift of ~ 0.1 (2004)
Blanc, G., Afonso, C., Alard, C., Albert, J. N., Aldering, G., Amadon, A., ...
We present the type Ia rate measurement based on two EROS supernova search campaigns (in 1999 and 2000). Sixteen supernovae identified as type Ia were discovered. The measurement of the detection...
OGLE-2003-BLG-238: Microlensing Mass Estimate of an Isolated Star (2004)
Jiang, Guangfei, DePoy, D. L., Gal-Yam, A., Gaudi, B. S., Gould, A., Han, C., ...
Microlensing is the only known direct method to measure the masses of stars that lack visible companions. In terms of microlensing observables, the mass is given by M=(c^2/4G)\tilde r_E \theta_E and...
Kervella, P., Fouque, P., Storm, J., Gieren, W. P., Bersier, D., Mourard, D., ...
Recent interferometric observations of the brightest and angularly largest classical Cepheid, L Carinae, with ESO's VLT Interferometer (VLTI) have resolved with high precision the variation of its...
EROS 2 proper motion survey: a field brown dwarf and an L dwarf companion to LHS 102 (2003)
Goldman, B., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Afonso, C., Alard, C., Albert, J.N., ...
We report the discovery of two L dwarfs (the new spectral class defined for dwarfs cooler than the M type) in a two-epoch CCD proper motion survey of 413 square degrees, complemented by infrared...
EROS 2 proper motion survey: a field brown dwarf and an L dwarf companion to LHS 102 (2003)
Goldman, B., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Afonso, C., Alard, C., Albert, J.N., ...
We report the discovery of two L dwarfs (the new spectral class defined for dwarfs cooler than the M type) in a two-epoch CCD proper motion survey of 413 square degrees, complemented by infrared...
EROS 2 proper motion survey: a field brown dwarf and an L dwarf companion to LHS 102 (2003)
Goldman, B., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Afonso, C., Alard, C., Albert, J.N., ...
We report the discovery of two L dwarfs (the new spectral class defined for dwarfs cooler than the M type) in a two-epoch CCD proper motion survey of 413 square degrees, complemented by infrared...
Dominik, M., Albrow, M. D., Caldwell, J. A. R., Cassan, A., Coutures, C., ...
With round-the-clock monitoring of galactic bulge microlensing events, the PLANET experiment constrains the abundance and can yield the discovery of planets down to the mass of earth around galactic...
Omont, A., Gilmore, G., Alard, C., Aracil, B., August, T., Baliyan, K., ...
The ISOGAL project is an infrared survey of specific regions sampling the Galactic Plane selected to provide information on Galactic structure,stellar populations,stellar mass-loss and the recent...
New neighbours: V. 35 DENIS late-M dwarfs between 10 and 30 parsecs (2003)
Phan-Bao, N., Crifo, F., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Guibert, J., Borsenberger, J., ...
This paper reports updated results on our systematic mining of the DENIS database for nearby very cool M-dwarfs (M6V-M8V, 2.0
Calibration of the distance scale from galactic Cepheids:II Use of the HIPPARCOS calibration (2002)
Paturel, G., Teerikorpi, P., Theureau, G., Fouque, P., Musella, I., Terry, J. N.
New estimate of the distances of 36 nearby galaxies is presented. It is based on the calibration of the V- and I-band Period-Lumi- nosity relations for galactic Cepheids measured by the HIPPARCOS...
Pietrzy{ń}ski, G., Gieren, W., Fouque, P., Pont, F.
Based on observations of NGC 300, obtained with the Wide-Field Camera at the 2.2 m ESO/MPI telescope during 29 nights spread over a 5.3 month interval, 117 Cepheids and 12 Cepheid candidates were...
The DENIS Point Source Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds. (2000)
Cioni, M-R.L., Loup, C., Habing, H.J., Fouque, P., Bertin, E., Deul, E., ...
Original article can be found at: http://www.aanda.org/ Copyright The European Southern Observatory DOI: 10.1051/aas:2000210
An absolute calibration of DENIS (deep near infrared southern sky survey). (2000)
Fouque, P., Chevallier, L., Cohen, M., Galliano, E., Loup, C., Alard, C., ...
Original article can be found at: http://www.aanda.org/ Copyright The European Southern Observatory DOI: 10.1051/aas:2000123
Ekholm, T., Lanoix, P., Teerikorpi, P., Paturel, G., Fouque, P.
A sample of 32 galaxies with accurate distance moduli from the Cepheid PL-relation (Lanoix 1999) has been used to study the dynamical behaviour of the Local (Virgo) supercluster. We used analytical...
Interstellar extinction towards the inner Galactic Bulge (1999)
Schultheis, M., Ganesh, S., Simon, G., Omont, A., Alard, C., Borsenberger, J., ...
DENIS observations in the J (1.2 micron) and K_S (2.15 micron) bands together with isochrones calculated for the RGB and AGB phase are used to draw an extinction map of the inner Galactic Bulge. The...
ISOGAL-DENIS detection of red giants with weak mass loss in the Galactic Bulge (1999)
Omont, A., Ganesh, S., Alard, C., Caillaud, B., Copet, E., ...
The ISOGAL project is a survey of the stellar populations, structure, and recent star formation history of the inner disk and bulge of the Galaxy. ISOGAL combines 15 and 7micron ISOCAM observations...
A preliminary database of DENIS point sources. (1999)
Epchtein, N., Deul, E., Derriere, S., Borsenberger, J., Egret, D., Simon, G., ...
New Young Stellar Object candidates in the Chamaeleon I molecular cloud discovered by DENIS (1998)
Cambresy, L., Copet, E., Epchtein, N., De Batz, B., Borsenberger, J., Fouque, P., ...
This paper presents an analysis of the nature of point sources discovered by DENIS in an area of 1.5 x 3 degrees around the Chamaeleon I molecular cloud. Most of the 30000 objects detected in the J...