Recent results by the MOA group on gravitational microlensing

Yock, P.; Bond, I.; Rattenbury, N.; Skuljan, J.; Sumi, T.; Abe, FR.; Dodd, R.; Hearnshaw, J.; Honda, M.; Jugaku, J.; Kilmartin, P.; Marles, A.; Masuda, K.; Matsubara, Y.; Muraki, Y.; Nakamura, T.; Nankivell, G.; Noda, S.; Noguchi, C.; Ohnishi, K.; Reid, M.; Saito, To.; Sato, H.; Sekiguchi, M.; Sullivan, D.; Takeuti, M.; Watase, Y.; Yanagisawa, T.

Recent results by the MOA group on gravitational microlensing

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Recent work by the MOA gravitational microlensing group is briefly described, including (i) the current observing strategy, (ii) use of a high-speed parallel computer for analysis of results by inverse ray shooting, (iii) analysis of the light curve of event OGLE-2000-BUL12 in terms of extra-solar planets, and (iv) the MOA alert system using difference imaging.
Invited paper at 9th Marcel Grossmann meeting, Rome, July 2000, 4 pages, 3 figures, uses style file ws-p9-75x6-50