MOA-2010-BLG-328: Keck and HST Expose the Limits of Occam’s Razor in Microlensing
Aikaterini Vandorou et al 2025 AJ 170 310 Analysis of a particular microlensing signal suggests that there’s no simple model of the event; instead, it requires microlensing parallax, lens orbital…
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