Impostor planet exposed by astronomers
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 09:01
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—Don't be fooled by its light curve exhibiting anomalies like those caused by planets—one microlensing event with a fancy name OGLE-2016-BLG-0733 is doing a really good job of mimicking an extrasolar world. This case of a binary-source event masquerading as a planet could have further implications for the search of exoplanets using the gravitational microlensing method.