Transients in Middle Earth

The KMTnet Microlensing Survey

10 Feb 2026, 13:20

20m

Rātā / Engineering Core Building (University of Canterbury)

Ground-based

Speaker

Michael Albrow (University of Canterbury)

Description

I will give an introduction to microlensing and describe the KMTNet survey, a high-cadence photometric survey of the Milky Way Bulge. From this survey, and over the last decade, we have detected ~ 25,000 microlensing events using our telescopes in Siding Spring, CTIO and SAAO. I will discuss observational features of the survey, what we have learned about the Galactic population of cool planets, and projections for the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey.