Gaia16aye
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gaia16aye-260-17793554
title:
Gaia16aye
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In astronomy, Gaia16aye is a gravitational microlensing event of the star 2MASS 19400112+3007533 by a dimmer binary star system. The source star 2MASS 19400112+3007533 is a magnitude 14.5 star in Cygnus. It was closely observed during a set of brightening events caused by gravitational microlensing in 2016. The Gaia16aye event was first noticed by the Gaia space mission via an alert on August 9, 2016. The unusual characteristics of the event led to an immediate massive follow-up campaign by tens
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Microlensing event
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia16aye
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date modified:
2023-10-28T17:13:11Z
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13
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14