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Bohdan Paczynski was a twentieth-century Polish astronomer who made significant contributions to astrophysics. His research focused on gravitational microlensing, particularly its application in studying dark matter distribution within galaxies, and he developed influential models for understanding...
Bohdan Paczyński was a prominent Polish astronomer known for his groundbreaking work on gamma-ray bursts and gravitational microlensing. His innovative techniques, particularly utilizing telescopes to detect faint light distortions caused by distant stars, significantly advanced the study of stellar...
Andrzej Udalski is a Polish astronomer and professor at the University of Warsaw, where he leads the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). This long-term astronomical survey project operates the 1.3-meter Warsaw University Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Under Udalski'...
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb is a cold super-Earth exoplanet discovered in 2005 through the gravitational microlensing technique. Located approximately 21,500 light-years from Earth, it was one of the smallest and most distant exoplanets discovered at the time of its announcement. The planet orbits a red dwa...
Kailash Sahu is an Indian astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute who used astrometric microlensing to report an isolated stellar-mass black hole.
MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb is a sub-Earth exoplanet discovered in 2007 via gravitational microlensing, notable for orbiting a low-mass red dwarf or possibly a brown dwarf host star.
