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The Use of High‐Magnification Microlensing Events in Discovering Extrasolar Planets

The Use of High‐Magnification Microlensing Events in Discovering Extrasolar Planets

Hundreds of gravitational microlensing events have now been detected towards the Galactic bulge, with many more to come. The detection of fine structure in these events has been theorized to be an excellent way to discover extra-solar planetary systems along the line-of-sight to the Galactic center. We show that by …