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List of works by Nicholas Rattenbury

A Gas Giant Planet in the OGLE-2006-BLG-284L Stellar Binary System

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

A Likely Detection of a Two-planet System in a Low-magnification Microlensing Event

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A Low‐Mass Planet with a Possible Sub‐Stellar‐Mass Host in Microlensing Event MOA‐2007‐BLG‐192

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Planetary Microlensing Event with an Unusually Red Source Star: MOA-2011-BLG-291

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A Sub-Saturn mass planet, MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Super-Jupiter orbiting a late-type star: a refined analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Wide-orbit Exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0838Lb

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

A brown dwarf orbiting an M-dwarf: MOA 2009–BLG–411L

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A cold neptune-mass planet OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb: cold neptunes are common

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A companion on the planet/brown dwarf mass boundary on a wide orbit discovered by gravitational microlensing

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A giant planet beyond the snow line in microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A new type of ambiguity in the planet and binary interpretations of central perturbations of high-magnification gravitational microlensing events

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high-magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A systematic fitting scheme for caustic-crossing microlensing events

scientific article

ARTEMiS (Automated Robotic Terrestrial Exoplanet Microlensing Search): A possible expert-system based cooperative effort to hunt for planets of Earth mass and below

scholarly article

An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing

scientific article published in July 2022

An Isolated Microlens Observed from K2, Spitzer, and Earth

scholarly article

An analysis of binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060

scientific article published in January 2019

Binary Source Microlensing Event OGLE-2016-BLG-0733: Interpretation of a Long-term Asymmetric Perturbation

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Binary microlensing event OGLE-2009-BLG-020 gives verifiable mass, distance, and orbit predictions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Brown-dwarf companions in microlensing binaries detected during the 2016--2018 seasons

scientific article published in 2022

Campaign 9 of the K2 Mission: Observational Parameters, Scientific Drivers, and Community Involvement for a Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey

scholarly article

Can the masses of isolated planetary-mass gravitational lenses Be measured by terrestrial parallax?

scientific article published in January 2015

Candidate Brown-dwarf Microlensing Events with Very Short Timescales and Small Angular Einstein Radii

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Candidate gravitational microlensing events for future direct lens imaging

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterizing lenses and lensed stars of high-magnification single-lens gravitational microlensing events with lenses passing over source stars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterizing low-mass binaries from observation of long-timescale caustic-crossing gravitational microlensing events

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Detection of Extra-solar Planets via High Amplification Microlensing Events

2003 doctoral thesis by Nicholas James Rattenbury at University of Auckland

Discovery and mass measurements of a cold, 10 earth mass planet and its host star

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn analog with gravitational microlensing

scientific article

Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses through gravitational microlensing

scientific article

Discovery of a gas giant planet in microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1760

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Discovery of the Optical Counterpart and Early Optical Observations of GRB 990712

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ERRATUM: “MOA-2008-BLG-379Lb: A MASSIVE PLANET FROM A HIGH MAGNIFICATION EVENT WITH A FAINT SOURCE” (2014, ApJ, 780, 123)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ExELS: an exoplanet legacy science proposal for the ESA Euclid mission – I. Cold exoplanets

scholarly article

Exoplanet detection. A terrestrial planet in a ~1-AU orbit around one member of a ~15-AU binary

scientific article

Extreme magnification microlensing event OGLE-2008-BLG-279: strong limits on planetary companions to the lens star

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Faint-source-star planetary microlensing: the discovery of the cold gas-giant planet OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb

scholarly article

First Assessment of the Binary Lens OGLE-2015-BLG-0232

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations

scientific article published in July 2024

Frequency of solar-like systems and of ice and gas giants beyond the snow line from high-magnification microlensing events in 2005-2008

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Ground-based Parallax Confirmed by Spitzer: Binary Microlensing Event MOA-2015-BLG-020

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Interpretation of a short-term anomaly in the gravitational microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-486

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Interpretation of strong short-term central perturbations in the light curves of moderate-magnification microlensing events

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

KMT-2019-BLG-0371 and the Limits of Bayesian Analysis

scientific article published on 15 June 2021

KMT-2019-BLG-0842Lb: A Cold Planet Below the Uranus/Sun Mass Ratio

scientific article published in 2020

KMT-2019-BLG-1715: Planetary Microlensing Event with Three Lens Masses and Two Source Stars

scientific article published on 19 May 2021

Lens parameters for Gaia 18cbf – a long gravitational microlensing event in the Galactic plane

scientific article published in June 2022

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

MOA 2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion, and detection of blended light

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2007-BLG-197: Exploring the brown dwarf desert

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

MOA-2008-BLG-379Lb: a massive planet from a high magnification event with a faint source

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb: a massive planet orbiting an M dwarf

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

MOA-2010-BLG-073L: an m-dwarf with a substellar companion at the Planet/Brown dwarf boundary

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2010-BLG-311: a planetary candidate below the threshold of reliable detection

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2010-BLG-328Lb: a Sub-Neptune orbiting very late M dwarf?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2010-BLG-353Lb: a possible Saturn revealed

scientific article

MOA-2010-BLG-523: "Failed planet" = RS CVn star

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2011-BLG-028Lb: a neptune-mass microlensing planet in the Galactic Bulge

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2011-BLG-262Lb: a sub-Earth-mass moon orbiting a gas giant primary or a high velocity planetary system in the galactic bulge

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb: a test of pure survey microlensing planet detections

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2011-BLG-322Lb: a `second generation survey' microlensing planet

scientific article

MOA-2012-BLG-505Lb: A Super-Earth-mass Planet That Probably Resides in the Galactic Bulge

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

MOA-2013-BLG-220Lb: massive planetary companion to galactic-disk host

scientific article (publication date: 27 June 2014)

MOA-2015-BLG-337: A Planetary System with a Low-mass Brown Dwarf/Planetary Boundary Host, or a Brown Dwarf Binary

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

MOA-2019-BLG-008Lb: A New Microlensing Detection of an Object at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary

scientific article published in 2022

Mass measurement of a single unseen star and planetary detection efficiency for OGLE 2007-BLG-050

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Masses and orbital constraints for the OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb,c Jupiter/Saturn analog planetary system

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Microlens OGLE-2005-BLG-169 Implies That Cool Neptune-like Planets Are Common

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Microlensing binaries discovered through high-magnification channel

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Microlensing binaries with candidate brown dwarf companions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Microlensing discovery of a population of very tight, very low mass binary brown dwarfs

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Microlensing discovery of a tight, low-mass-ratio planetary-mass object around an old field brown dwarf

scientific article (publication date: 31 October 2013)

Microlensing event MOA-2007-BLG-400: exhuming the buried signature of a cool, Jovian-mass planet

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Modelling the Galactic bar using OGLE-II red clump giant stars

scientific article published in January 2007

New Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line for an Extended MOA Exoplanet Microlens Sample

OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53: a planetary microlensing event

scientific article (publication date: 15 April 2004)

OGLE 2008-BLG-290: an accurate measurement of the limb darkening of a galactic bulge K giant spatially resolved by microlensing

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

OGLE-2005-BLG-153: microlensing discovery and characterization of a very low mass binary

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2008-BLG-355Lb: a massive planet around a late-type star

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2008-BLG-510: first automated real-time detection of a weak microlensing anomaly -- brown dwarf or stellar binary?

scholarly article

OGLE-2009-BLG-092/MOA-2009-BLG-137: a dramatic repeating event with the second perturbation predicted by real-time analysis

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2011-BLG-0265Lb: a jovian microlensing planet orbiting an M dwarf

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2012-BLG-0455/MOA-2012-BLG-206: microlensing event with ambiguity in planetary interpretations caused by incomplete coverage of planetary signal

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb: a saturn-mass planet around an M dwarf with the mass constrained by Subaru AO imaging

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2012-BLG-0724Lb: a Saturn-mass planet around an M dwarf

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb: the first planet mass measurement from only microlens parallax and lens flux

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

OGLE-2013-BLG-0102LA,B: microlensing binary with components at star/brown dwarf and brown dwarf/planet boundaries

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2013-BLG-0132Lb and OGLE-2013-BLG-1721Lb: Two Saturn-mass Planets Discovered around M-dwarfs

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

OGLE-2013-BLG-0911Lb: A Secondary on the Brown-Dwarf Planet Boundary around an M-dwarf

scientific article published in 2020

OGLE-2013-BLG-1761Lb: A Massive Planet around an M/K Dwarf

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

OGLE-2014-BLG-0221Lb: A Jupiter Mass Ratio Companion Orbiting Either a Late-type Star or a Stellar Remnant

scientific article published in April 2024

OGLE-2014-BLG-0289: Precise Characterization of a Quintuple-peak Gravitational Microlensing Event

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2014-BLG-0962 and a Comparison of Galactic Model Priors to Microlensing Data

OGLE-2015-BLG-1459L: The Challenges of Exo-moon Microlensing

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

OGLE-2015-BLG-1649Lb: A Gas Giant Planet around a Low-mass Dwarf

scientific article published in November 2019

OGLE-2015-BLG-1670Lb: A Cold Neptune beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Microlensing Survey Field

scientific article

OGLE-2016-BLG-0156: Microlensing Event with Pronounced Microlens-parallax Effects Yielding a Precise Lens Mass Measurement

scholarly article

OGLE-2016-BLG-0263Lb: Microlensing Detection of a Very Low-mass Binary Companion through a Repeating Event Channel

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

OGLE-2016-BLG-1003: First Resolved Caustic-crossing Binary-source Event Discovered by Second-generation Microlensing Surveys

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb: The First Spitzer Bulge Planet Lies Near the Planet/Brown-dwarf Boundary

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

OGLE-2016-BLG-1469L: Microlensing Binary Composed of Brown Dwarfs

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2017-BLG-0039: Microlensing Event with Light from a Lens Identified from Mass Measurement

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

OGLE-2017-BLG-0406: Spitzer Microlens Parallax Reveals Saturn-mass Planet Orbiting M-dwarf Host in the Inner Galactic Disk

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

OGLE-2017-BLG-0482Lb: A Microlensing Super-Earth Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

OGLE-2017-BLG-1049: Another giant planet microlensing event

OGLE-2017-BLG-1186: first application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

OGLE-2018-BLG-0022: First Prediction of an Astrometric Microlensing Signal from a Photometric Microlensing Event

OGLE-2018-BLG-1011Lb,c: Microlensing Planetary System with Two Giant Planets Orbiting a Low-mass Star

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

OGLE-2018-BLG-1185b : A Low-Mass Microlensing Planet Orbiting a Low-Mass Dwarf

OGLE-2018-BLG-1185b: A Low-mass Microlensing Planet Orbiting a Low-mass Dwarf

scientific article published in August 2021

OGLE-2018-BLG-1269Lb: A Jovian Planet With A Bright, $I=16$ Host

OGLE-2018-BLG-1700L: Microlensing Planet in Binary Stellar System

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

OGLE-2019-BLG-0960 Lb: the Smallest Microlensing Planet

scientific article published on 6 October 2021

OGLE-BLG182.1.162852 : an eclipsing binary with a circumstellar disk - in eclipse now

OGLE-BLG182.1.162852: an eclipsing binary with a circumstellar disc

scientific article published in January 2015

Planet sensitivity from combined ground- and space-based microlensing observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Planetary microlensing at high magnification

scientific article published in January 2002

Potential Direct Single‐Star Mass Measurement

Precision measurement of a brown dwarf mass in a binary system in the microlensing event

scientific article published in July 2022

Realisation of a fully-deterministic microlensing observing strategy for inferring planet populations

scholarly article

Reanalyses of anomalous gravitational microlensing events in the OGLE-III early warning system database with combined data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Red noise versus planetary interpretations in the microlensing event Ogle-2013-BLG-446

scientific article (publication date: 16 October 2015)

RoboNet-II: Follow-up observations of microlensing events with a robotic network of telescopes

scholarly article

SPITZER PARALLAX OF OGLE-2015-BLG-0966: A COLD NEPTUNE IN THE GALACTIC DISK

scientific article (publication date: 2 March 2016)

Search for low-mass exoplanets by gravitational microlensing at high magnification

scientific article published in January 2004

Spectroscopic Mass and Host-star Metallicity Measurements for Newly Discovered Microlensing Planet OGLE-2018-BLG-0740Lb

Spitzer Microlensing Parallax Reveals Two Isolated Stars in the Galactic Bulge

Spitzer Microlensing of MOA-2016-BLG-231L: A Counter-rotating Brown Dwarf Binary in the Galactic Disk

scientific article

Spitzer microlensing parallax for OGLE-2016-BLG-1067: a sub-Jupiter orbiting an M dwarf in the disk

scientific article published in January 2019

Spitzer observations of OGLE-2015-BLG-1212 reveal a new path toward breaking strong microlens degeneracies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spitzer parallax of OGLE-2018-BLG-0596: a low-mass-ratio planet around an M dwarf

scientific article published in January 2019

Sub-Saturn planet MOA-2008-BLG-310Lb: likely to Be in the Galactic Bulge

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Supplement: “An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing” (2022, ApJL, 933, L23)

scientific article published in June 2022

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper II: Six New $q<2\times 10^{-4}$ Mass-ratio Planets

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. I. OGLE-2019-BLG-1053Lb, a Buried Terrestrial Planet

scientific article published on 24 September 2021

The First Planetary Microlensing Event with Two Microlensed Source Stars

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The extreme microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-224: terrestrial parallax observation of a thick-disk brown dwarf

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The first Neptune analog or super-Earth with a Neptune-like orbit: MOA-2013-BLG-605Lb

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The first circumbinary planet found by microlensing: OGLE-2007-BLG-349L(AB)c

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The first simultaneous microlensing observations by two space telescopes: Spitzer and Swift reveal a brown dwarf in event OGLE-2015-BLG-1319

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The frequency of snowline-region planets from four years of OGLE–MOA–Wise second-generation microlensing

scientific article published on 27 February 2016

The lowest mass ratio planetary microlens: OGLE 2016–BLG–1195Lb

scientific article

Two new free-floating or wide-orbit planets from microlensing

scientific article

Unbound or distant planetary mass population detected by gravitational microlensing

scientific article (publication date: 19 May 2011)

Using orbital effects to break the Close/Wide degeneracy in binary-lens microlensing events

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal