Finding the brightest galactic bulge microlensing events with a small aperture telescope and image subtraction

Nataf, DavidStanek, K ZBakos, Gaspar2015-12-100001-5237http://hdl.handle.net/1885/66971Following the suggestion of Gould and Depoy (1998) we investigate the feasibility of studying the brightest microlensing events towards the Galactic bulge using a small aperture (≈ 10 cm) telescope. We used one of the HAT telescopes to obtain 151 exposuKeywords: Gravitational lenslng; Stars: Variables: General; Techniques: photometricFinding the brightest galactic bulge microlensing events with a small aperture telescope and image subtraction20092016-02-24