Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
OGLE telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory
Alternative namesOGLE
Coordinates29°00′36″S 70°41′56″W / 29.01°S 70.699°W / -29.01; -70.699
Websiteogle.astrouw.edu.pl
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The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) is a Polish astronomical project based at the University of Warsaw that runs a long-term variability sky survey (1992–present). The main goals are the detection and classification of variable stars (pulsating and eclipsing), discovery of microlensing events, dwarf novae, and studies of the structure of the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. Since the project began in 1992, it has discovered a multitude of extrasolar planets, together with the first planet discovered using the transit method (OGLE-TR-56b) and gravitational microlensing. The project has been led by professor Andrzej Udalski since its inception.

Description

OGLE-IV Galactic Bulge fields with cadence, from OGLE-IV sky coverage.

The main targets of the experiment are the Magellanic Clouds and the Galactic Bulge, because of the large number of intervening stars that can be used for microlensing during a stellar transit. Most of the observations have been made at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Cooperating institutions include Princeton University and the Carnegie Institution.

The project is now in its fourth phase. The first phase, OGLE-I (1992–1995) used the 1.0-metre (3 ft 3 in) Swope telescope and a single-chip CCD sensor. For OGLE-II (1996–2000), a 1.3-metre (4 ft 3 in) telescope dedicated to the project (the Warsaw telescope) was constructed at Las Campanas Observatory. It was equipped with a single 2048×2048 pixel sensor with a field of view 0.237 degrees wide.[1]

OGLE-III (2001–2009) expanded the camera to a mosaic of eight 2048×4096 pixel CCDs, and was able to search for gravitational microlensing events and transiting planets in four fields: the Galactic Bulge, the constellation Carina,[2] and toward both Magellanic Clouds. As a byproduct of the constant monitoring of hundreds of millions of stars, the largest catalogs of variable stars were constructed, and the first exoplanets discovered using the microlensing technique were detected.

In 2010, following engineering work in 2009, the fourth and current phase, OGLE-IV, was started using a 32-chip mosaic CCD camera which fills the Warsaw telescope's 1.5° field of view.[3] The main goal for this phase is to increase the number of planetary detections using microlensing, enabled by the new camera.

Recently the OGLE team, in cooperation with scientists mostly from the US, New Zealand and Japan, proved that small, Earth-like planets can exist at a significant distance from stars around which they revolve despite there being other stars near them.[4][5]

In January 2022 in collaboration with Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) they reported in a preprint the first rogue black hole.[6][7][8][9] While there have been other candidates[10] this is the most solid detection so far as their technique allowed to measure not only the amplification of light but also its deflection by the BH from the microlensing data.

Planets discovered

At least seventeen planets have so far been discovered by the OGLE project. Eight of the planets were discovered by the transit method and six by the gravitational microlensing method.

Planets are shown in the order of discovery. Planets in multiple-planet systems are highlighted in yellow. The list below may not be complete.

Star Constellation Right
ascension
Declination App.
mag.
Distance (ly) Spectral
type
Planet Mass
(MJ)
Radius (RJ) Orbital
period

(d)
a
(AU)
ecc. incl.
(°)
Discovery
year
OGLE-TR-10[11][12]Sagittarius17h 51m 28s−29° 52 3415.785000G2V OGLE-TR-10 b0.631.263.101290.04162084.52002
OGLE-TR-111Carina10h 53m 01s−61° 24 2016.965000G OGLE-TR-111 b0.531.04.016100.047088.12002
OGLE-TR-132Carina10h 50m 34s−61° 57 2515.727110F OGLE-TR-132 b1.141.181.6898680.03060852003
OGLE-TR-56Sagittarius17h 56m 35s−29° 32 2116.564892G OGLE-TR-56 b1.291.301.2119090.0225078.82003
OGLE-TR-113Carina10h 52m 24s−61° 26 4816.081800K OGLE-TR-113 b1.321.091.43247570.0229089.42004
OGLE-2003-BLG-235L
/MOA-2003-BLG-53L
Sagittarius18h 05m 16s−28° 53 4219000K OGLE-2003-BLG-235Lb 2.64.32004
OGLE-2005-BLG-071LScorpius17h 50m 09s−34° 40 2319.59500M OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb3.536003.62005
OGLE-2005-BLG-169LSagittarius18h 06m 05s–30° 43 5719.48800M? OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb0.0410.3452006
OGLE-2005-BLG-390LSagittarius17h 54m 19s−30° 22 3821500M? OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb0.0182006
OGLE-TR-211Carina10h 40m 15s−62° 27 205300F OGLE-TR-211 b1.031.363.677240.0510≥87.22007
OGLE-TR-182Carina11h 09m 19s−61° 05 4316.8412700G OGLE-TR-182 b1.011.133.97910.051085.72007
OGLE2-TR-L9Carina11h 07m 55s−61° 08 462935F3 OGLE2-TR-L9 b4.51.612.48553350.03082008
OGLE-2006-BLG-109LSagittarius17h 52m 35s−30° 05 164900M0V? OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb0.7118252.32008
OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lc0.2751004.80.11592008
OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L17h 34m 19s−27° 08 344080 OGLE-2012-BLG-0026Lb0.113.822012
OGLE-2012-BLG-0026Lc0.684.632012
OGLE-2011-BLG-025117h 38m 14s−27° 08 108232M OGLE-2011-BLG-0251 b0.532.72 or 1.52013
OGLE-2007-BLG-349(AB)8000 OGLE-2007-BLG-349(AB)b0.252.9 2016
OGLE-2016-BLG-1190LSagittarius17h 58m 53s−27° 36 4922000G OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb13.381223.62.170.4241.22017
OGLE-2016-BLG-1195L OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb0.0045 2017
OGLE-2013-BLG-0132L 13000 OGLE-2013-BLG-0132Lb 0.29 2017
OGLE-2013-BLG-1721L 21000 OGLE-2013-BLG-1721Lb 0.64 2.6 2017
OGLE-2016-BLG-0263L 21000 OGLE-2016-BLG-0263Lb 4.10 5.4 2017
OGLE-2018-BLG-0799L 2900 OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb0.22 1.75 2018
N/A OGLE-2019-BLG-0551b 0.0242 2020
OGLE-2019-BLG-0960L OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb 0.0071 2021
Artist's impression of the planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb discovered by the OGLE Team

Notes: For events detected by the gravitational microlensing method, year stands for OGLE season, BLG means that an event detected is in the Galactic BuLGe, and the following 3-digit number is an ordinal number of microlensing event in that season. For events detected by the transit method TR stands for TRansit and the following 3-digit number is an ordinal number of transit event.

See also

References

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  2. Udalski, Andrzej (2003). "The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Real Time Data Analysis Systems in the OGLE-III Survey" (PDF). Acta Astronomica. 53 (4): 291–306. arXiv:astro-ph/0401123. Bibcode:2003AcA....53..291U. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.316.4693.
  3. Udalski, A.; Szymański, M. K.; Szymański, G. (2015). "OGLE-IV: Fourth Phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment" (PDF). Acta Astronomica. 65 (1): 1–38. arXiv:1504.05966. Bibcode:2015AcA....65....1U.
  4. "Laureaci FNP odkryli zimną Ziemię" [FNP laureates have discovered a cold Earth] (in Polish). Foundation for Polish Science (FNP). 7 July 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
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  6. Sahu, Kailash C.; Anderson, Jay; Casertano, Stefano; Bond, Howard E.; Udalski, Andrzej; Dominik, Martin; Calamida, Annalisa; Bellini, Andrea; Brown, Thomas M.; Rejkuba, Marina; Bajaj, Varun (2022-05-25). "An Isolated Stellar-mass Black Hole Detected through Astrometric Microlensing". The Astrophysical Journal. 933: 83. arXiv:2201.13296. Bibcode:2022ApJ...933...83S. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac739e. S2CID 246430448.
  7. Lam, Casey Y.; Lu, Jessica R.; Udalski, Andrzej; Bond, Ian; Bennett, David P.; Skowron, Jan; Mroz, Przemek; Poleski, Radek; Sumi, Takahiro; Szymanski, Michal K.; Kozlowski, Szymon (2022-05-31). "An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 933: L23. arXiv:2202.01903. Bibcode:2022ApJ...933L..23L. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac7442. S2CID 246608178.
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