μFUN-PLANET collaboration

 

In January 2009 we decided to form a new microlensing collaboration, the μFUN-PLANET collaboration. Our objective is  to  search for extrasolar planets via microlensing, combining the ressources of the two previous groups, μFUN and PLANET. μFUN and PLANET had different search strategies based primarily on different resource structures. Nevertheless, the strategies are both complementary and overlapping and so will benefit from increased cooperation and integration of effort.
In particular, coverage of high-mag events  will benefit in two major ways:
  1) better identification of high-mag events from PLANET photometry at low magnification.
  2) better coverage near peak by closer coordination between μFUN and PLANET observatories.

We will, as always, work closely with OGLE and MOA teams.

 

2011 season

μFUN-PLANET came online mid March, 2011, with MOA-034. μFUN and some PLANET telescopes were kept on target of opportunity status; Continuous monitoring from PLANET started on May 1 st, 2011 at Canopus, and later at SAAO.

Planet season ended officialy on September 1st, but a few promizing alerts have been followed later by Canopus, thanks to the Tasmanian team.

Official data collecting ended midnight, November 11. A summary of all observations 2001 can be found at: 2011 summary

Among the most promizing: KB11028/OB11201, KB11191, KB11262, KB11293, OB110265, OB110417, OB110950, OB110993 are under reprocessing of the data and more exhaustive fitting.

Among them, MOA-11-262, alias OGLE-11-0703 , with a perturbation lasting less than one hour, could display a moon around the lens. The fit by Han Cheongho here (more on Han s site).

IN THE NEWS: The new telescope in Tasmania Australia is under construction. Plans include a wide field imager. After arriving to Hobart in November, the new telescope has been assembled at UTAS, then moved to the dome of the new observatory

 

ONLINE DATA
can be accessed through our List of monitored events (with online data files).
Usually data updates within an hour of being taken at the Planet telescope.
Data will be still uploaded on both websites of PLANET and μFUN for the time being.

TOOLS & MODELING
Watch List of possible High Magnification events
last pySIS3 reductions
Latest modelling of ongoing events by Cheongho Han and students.
This is password protected: Contact us.

PLANET/μFUN TELESCOPES for 2011
here

PLANET 1995-2010 LIGHTCURVES
1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010  2011

HAN CHEONGHO MODELS 2008-2010
 2008  2009  2010  2011

 

Our Collaborator's information and useful tools can be found at:
OGLE Survey group in Chile. They are currently upgrading thier telescope. A list of pre 2009 events
MOA Survey group in New Zealand. A list of thier current microlensing alerts
μFUN Follow up group of Ohio State Uni, and amateur astronomers world wide. A quick-look photometry archive
RoboNet II Automatic follow up telescope network with customizable priority list for microlensing targets
and associated page that provides a telescope specific prioritized list. PLOP
MiNDSTEp and ARTEMIS consists of an automatic data collection, modelling and alert detection system. It has similar layout/methedology/functionality as the PLANET pages (above) but there are differences in the implementation of models.
There is a sorted prioritized list
and an interactive plotter

not Found At IAP, PLANET is funded by HOLMES collaboration (J.P. Beaulieu, Pascal Fouqué)

 
Planet Planet has found the first earth-like exoplanet Information available.

Updated 2011-09-27 Ch.C