Introduction to Microlensing

If you attend the AAS Workshop for the RMDC26, this introduction will be given in person by Dr. Scott Gaudi. If you are not attending in person, you can still follow along with the slides or watch the recordings on our minicourses page for more lecture-style content.

Introductory Slides (Presented by Dr. B. Scott Gaudi)

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Mini Data Challenge/Hack Session

For the remainder of the session we will be following along with this notebook:

You might also consider browsing through this notebook at some point:

Introduction to microlensing open source software (notebooks/microlensing_tools/microlensing_tools.ipynb).

Additional Resources

Data Challenge

Alternate Data Access

General Microlensing

Microlensing Tools