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Detecting Earth‐Mass Planets with Gravitational Microlensing

Detecting Earth‐Mass Planets with Gravitational Microlensing

We show that Earth-mass planets orbiting stars in the Galactic disk and bulge can be detected by monitoring microlensed stars in the Galactic bulge. The star and its planet act as a binary lens which generates a light curve that can differ substantially from the light curve due only to …