Sentences with phrase «ultrashort microlensing events»

Jennifer Yee, an astronomer at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and KMTNet team member, says that longer monitoring would make it easier to detect the signals of rogue Earths — and to distinguish them from confounding effects such as stellar flares, which can mimic ultrashort microlensing events.

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Of the more than 2,600 microlensing events the OGLE team observed and analyzed, six were «ultrashort,» lasting less than half a day — suggesting they were caused by objects somewhere between one and 10 times the Earth's mass.