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Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment

Index Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment

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). [1]

75 relations: AB7, All Sky Automated Survey, Andrzej Udalski, Astronomical survey, Baade's Window, Blue large-amplitude pulsator, Bohdan Paczyński, Delta Scuti variable, Gravitational lens, Gravitational microlensing, Grzegorz Pojmański, HV 2112, Index of physics articles (O), Las Campanas Observatory, List of astronomical catalogues, List of astronomy acronyms, List of exoplanet firsts, List of exoplanet search projects, Long-period variable star, MACHO 176.18833.411, Marcin Kubiak, Methods of detecting exoplanets, MicroFUN, Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, MOA-2010-BLG-477L, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, Ogle, OGLE-2003-BLG-235/MOA-2003-BLG-53, OGLE-2003-BLG-235Lb/MOA-2003-BLG-53Lb, OGLE-2005-BLG-071L, OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, OGLE-2005-BLG-169L, OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb, OGLE-2005-BLG-390L, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, OGLE-2006-BLG-109L, OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb, OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lc, OGLE-2007-BLG-349(AB)b, OGLE-2007-BLG-368L, OGLE-2014-BLG-0124Lb, OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, OGLE-2017-BLG-1522Lb, OGLE-TR-10, OGLE-TR-10b, OGLE-TR-111, OGLE-TR-111b, OGLE-TR-113, OGLE-TR-113b, ..., OGLE-TR-122, OGLE-TR-123, OGLE-TR-132, OGLE-TR-132b, OGLE-TR-182, OGLE-TR-182b, OGLE-TR-211, OGLE-TR-211b, OGLE-TR-56b, OGLE2-TR-L9, OGLE2-TR-L9b, Red-giant branch, Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, Semiregular variable star, Spitzer Space Telescope, Timeline of Polish science and technology, TrES-1b, V1309 Scorpii, Vista Variables in the Via Lactea, VOEvent, VVV Survey, W Mensae, Xallarap, (471143) 2010 EK139, 2006 in science. Expand index (25 more) »

AB7

AB7, also known as SMC WR7, is a binary star in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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All Sky Automated Survey

The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) is a Polish project implemented on 7 April 1997 to do photometric monitoring of approximately 20 million stars brighter than 14 magnitude all over the sky.

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Andrzej Udalski

Andrzej Udalski (born 22 January 1957 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish astronomer and astrophysicist, and director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw.

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Astronomical survey

An astronomical survey is a general map or image of a region of the sky which lacks a specific observational target.

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Baade's Window

Baade's Window is an area of the sky with relatively low amounts of interstellar "dust" along the line of sight from the Earth.

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Blue large-amplitude pulsator

A Blue large-amplitude pulsator (BLAP) is a proposed class of pulsating variable star.

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Bohdan Paczyński

Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski (8 February 1940 – 19 April 2007) was a Polish astronomer notable in the theory of the stellar evolution, accretion discs, and gamma ray bursts.

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Delta Scuti variable

A Delta Scuti variable (sometimes termed dwarf cepheid) is a variable star which exhibits variations in its luminosity due to both radial and non-radial pulsations of the star's surface.

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Gravitational lens

A gravitational lens is a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) between a distant light source and an observer, that is capable of bending the light from the source as the light travels towards the observer.

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Gravitational microlensing

Gravitational microlensing is an astronomical phenomenon due to the gravitational lens effect.

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Grzegorz Pojmański

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HV 2112

HV 2112 is a cool luminous variable star in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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Index of physics articles (O)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Las Campanas Observatory

Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS).

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List of astronomical catalogues

An astronomical catalogue is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery.

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List of astronomy acronyms

This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in astronomy.

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List of exoplanet firsts

This is a list of exoplanet discoveries that were the first by several criteria, including.

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List of exoplanet search projects

The following is a list of exoplanet search projects.

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Long-period variable star

The descriptive term long-period variable star refers to various groups of cool luminous pulsating variable stars.

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MACHO 176.18833.411

MACHO 176.18833.411 (OGLE BLG-RRLYR-10353) is an RR Lyrae variable star located in the galactic bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy.

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Marcin Kubiak

Prof Marcin Antoni Kubiak, PhD - a Polish astrophysicist, obtained his professorship title on 25 April 1994.

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Methods of detecting exoplanets

Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star.

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MicroFUN

The Microlensing Follow-Up Network (μFUN, pronounced "micro-fun") is an informal group of observers who monitor high magnification gravitational microlensing events in the Milky Way's Galactic Bulge.

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Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics

Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) is a collaborative project between researchers in New Zealand and Japan, led by Professor Yasushi Muraki of Nagoya University.

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MOA-2010-BLG-477L

MOA-2010-BLG-477L is a K-type star with about 0.67 times the mass of the Sun, in the main-sequence phase of its stellar evolution.

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Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, previously called the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, is a NASA space telescope designed to detect gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).

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Ogle

Ogle may refer to.

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OGLE-2003-BLG-235/MOA-2003-BLG-53

OGLE-2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53 was a gravitational microlensing event which occurred in the constellation of Sagittarius during July 2003.

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OGLE-2003-BLG-235Lb/MOA-2003-BLG-53Lb

OGLE-2003-BLG-235Lb/MOA-2003-BLG-53Lb is an extrasolar planet discovered in April 2004 by the OGLE and MOA collaborations.

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OGLE-2005-BLG-071L

OGLE-2005-BLG-071L is a distant, magnitude 19.5 galactic bulge star located in the constellation Scorpius, approximately 11000 light years away from the Solar System.

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OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb

OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb is a planet discovered by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) and others in 2005, using gravitational microlensing.

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OGLE-2005-BLG-169L

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OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb

OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb is an extrasolar planet located approximately 2700 parsecs away in the constellation of Sagittarius, orbiting the star OGLE-2005-BLG-169L.

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OGLE-2005-BLG-390L

OGLE-2005-BLG-390L is a star thought to be a spectral type M (a red dwarf; 95% probability, 4% probability it is a white dwarf,.

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OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb

OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (known sometimes as Hoth by NASA) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting OGLE-2005-BLG-390L, a star 21,500 ± 3,300 light years from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.

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OGLE-2006-BLG-109L

OGLE-2006-BLG-109L (where 'L' stands for lens) is a dim magnitude 17 M0V galactic bulge star approximately 4,920 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius.

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OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb

OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb is an extrasolar planet approximately 4,920 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.

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OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lc

OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lc is an extrasolar planet approximately 4,920 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.

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OGLE-2007-BLG-349(AB)b

OGLE-2007-BLG-349(AB)bThe initial paper intentionally refers to the planet as planet "c", as their solution to "an apparent inconsistency" in exoplanet naming convention.

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OGLE-2007-BLG-368L

OGLE-2007-BLG-368 is a star 19,200 light years away in the Scorpius constellation.

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OGLE-2014-BLG-0124Lb

OGLE-2014-BLG-0124Lb is one of the farthest planets that we know of today.

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OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb

OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb is an extremely massive extrasolar planet, with a mass about 13.4 times that of Jupiter, or is, possibly, a low mass brown dwarf, orbiting the G-dwarf star OGLE-2016-BLG-1190L, located about 22,000 light years from Earth, in the constellation of Sagittarius, in the galactic bulge of the Milky Way.

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OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb

OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb is an extrasolar planet located nearly 13,000 light-years from Earth, orbiting the star OGLE-2016-BLG-1195L, which is only 7.8 percent the size of the Sun.

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OGLE-2017-BLG-1522Lb

OGLE-2017-BLG-1522Lb is an extrasolar planet believed to be orbiting a brown dwarf.

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OGLE-TR-10

OGLE-TR-10 is a distant, magnitude 16 star in the constellation of Sagittarius.

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OGLE-TR-10b

OGLE-TR-10b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star OGLE-TR-10.

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OGLE-TR-111

OGLE-TR-111 is a yellow dwarf star approximately 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina (the Keel).

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OGLE-TR-111b

OGLE-TR-111b is an extrasolar planet approximately 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina (the Keel).

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OGLE-TR-113

OGLE-TR-113 is a dim, distant magnitude 16 binary star in the star fields of the constellation Carina.

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OGLE-TR-113b

OGLE-TR-113b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star OGLE-TR-113.

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OGLE-TR-122

OGLE-TR-122 is a binary stellar system containing one of the smallest main-sequence stars whose radius has been measured.

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OGLE-TR-123

OGLE-TR-123 is a binary stellar system containing one of the smallest main-sequence stars whose radius has been measured.

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OGLE-TR-132

OGLE-TR-132 is a distant magnitude 15.72 star in the star fields of the constellation Carina.

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OGLE-TR-132b

OGLE-TR-132b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star OGLE-TR-132.

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OGLE-TR-182

OGLE-TR-182 is a dim magnitude 17 star far off in the constellation Carina at a distance of approximately 12,700 light years.

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OGLE-TR-182b

OGLE-TR-182b is a transiting extrasolar planet.

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OGLE-TR-211

OGLE-TR-211 is a distant magnitude 14 star located about 5,700 light years away in the constellation of Carina.

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OGLE-TR-211b

OGLE-TR-211b is a transiting planet in Carina constellation.

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OGLE-TR-56b

OGLE-TR-56b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 1500 parsecs away in the constellation of Sagittarius, orbiting the star OGLE-TR-56.

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OGLE2-TR-L9

OGLE2-TR-L9 is a magnitude 15 star in the constellation Carina at a distance of approximately 5,142 light years.

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OGLE2-TR-L9b

OGLE2-TR-L9b is an extrasolar planet discovered by three undergraduate students from Leiden University, Netherlands.

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Red-giant branch

The red-giant branch (RGB), sometimes called the first giant branch, is the portion of the giant branch before helium ignition occurs in the course of stellar evolution.

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Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search

The Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, or SWEEPS, was a 2006 astronomical survey project using the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys - Wide Field Channel to monitor 180,000 stars for seven days to detect extrasolar planets via the transit method.

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Semiregular variable star

Semiregular variable stars are giants or supergiants of intermediate and late spectral type showing considerable periodicity in their light changes, accompanied or sometimes interrupted by various irregularities.

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Spitzer Space Telescope

The Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), is an infrared space telescope launched in 2003 and still operating as of 2018.

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Timeline of Polish science and technology

Education has been of prime interest to Poland's rulers since the early 12th century.

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TrES-1b

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V1309 Scorpii

V1309 Scorpii (also known as V1309 Sco) is a contact binary that merged into a single star in 2008 in a process known as a luminous red nova.

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Vista Variables in the Via Lactea

VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea –The VVV Survey– is observing the Milky Way's bulge and southern disk in the near-infrared using the capabilities of the VISTA Telescope at Paranal, Chile.

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VOEvent

VOEvent is a standardized language used to report observations of astronomical events; it was officially adopted in 2006 by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA).

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VVV Survey

The VVV Survey is an ESO public survey scanning the Milky Way bulge and adjacent section of the southern mid-plane in the near-infrared.

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W Mensae

W Mensae (W Men) is an unusual yellow supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the southern constellation Mensa.

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Xallarap

Xallarap is a variation in a gravitational lensing observation caused by the orbital motion of the source.

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(471143) 2010 EK139

is a trans-Neptunian object in the scattered disc, orbiting the Sun in the outermost region of the Solar System.

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2006 in science

The year 2006 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment

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