Number of posts : 4320 Location : Earth Registration date : 2008-04-06
Subject: Predicted Microlensing Events and VB 10 26th February 2012, 9:20 pm
Searching for Planets During Predicted Mesolensing Events: I. Theory, and the Case of VB 10 http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5316
Searching for Planets During Predicted Mesolensing Events: II. PLAN-IT: An Observing Program and its Application to VB 10 http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5314
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Subject: Re: Predicted Microlensing Events and VB 10 27th February 2012, 2:59 am
So lensing events where the lens is nearby are mesolensing events, and distant lenses (such as the current set of objects where planets have been discovered by gravitational lensing) are microlensing.