Mesolensing Explorations of Nearby Masses: From Planets to Black Holes
Mesolensing Explorations of Nearby Masses: From Planets to Black Holes
Nearby masses can have a high probability of lensing stars in a distant background field. High-probability lensing, or mesolensing, can therefore be used to dramatically increase our knowledge of dark and dim objects in the solar neighborhood, where it can discover and study members of the local dark population (free-floating …