uFUN-PLANET collaboration

 

In January 2009 we decided to form a new microlensing collaboration, the uFUN-PLANET collaboration. Our objective is  to  search for extrasolar planets via microlensing, combining the ressources of the two previous groups, uFUN and PLANET. uFUN 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 uFUN and PLANET observatories.

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

Happy hunting for 2010 !

uFUN-PLANET is getting online on March 30, 2010. Some uFUN and some PLANET telescopes are already online on target of opportunity status. The continuous monitoring from PLANET will start on May 1, 2010. As of today, April 2, 2010, we are very pleased to announce that the ASTEP400 telescope located in Antartica, at DOME C, has observed its first microlensing event: KB-10-077.

IN THE NEWS A new telescope in Tasmania Australia is due for commisioning later this year. Plans include a wide field imager. See the Hobart Mercury newspaper article

 

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

 TOOLS
BAP (OGLE) Bayesian Parameter for OGLE events
BAP MOA Bayesian Parameter for MOA events
Watch List of possible High Magnification events
Latest modelling of ongoing events by Cheongho Han and students.
This is password potected: Contact us.

 

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
uFUN 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

Update May 8, 2010