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The 22 pages that link to Gravitational microlensing, each with the reason it gives.

• ExoplanetRelated: A planet can create a brief signal during its host star’s microlensing event.

• AstrometryCompared with: Unlike direct positional tracking, microlensing can find planets through transient changes in brightness.

• Radial velocity methodCompared with: Microlensing can detect distant planets through a brief magnification event rather than a repeating stellar wobble.

• Gravitational lensingBroader topic: When images cannot be resolved, lensing appears as a changing light curve.

• GravityBroader topic: It detects otherwise unseen planets and compact objects through their gravitational effects on light.

• PhotometryRelated: Photometric monitoring detects the characteristic brightening of microlensing events.

• Transit methodCompared with: It can detect planets without requiring repeated transits or a nearby bright host.

• Light curveRelated: The brightening profile in a light curve reveals otherwise difficult-to-see lensing objects.

• Gravitational lensBroader topic: Some lenses reveal themselves through changing brightness rather than visible image distortion.

• Variable starCompared with: Microlensing changes observed brightness without changing the source star or eclipsing it.

• Direct imaging of exoplanetsCompared with: Microlensing can detect distant planets without resolving their light from the host star.

• Primordial black holeRelated: Microlensing surveys constrain compact primordial black holes across some mass ranges.

• Direct imagingCompared with: It can detect planets without resolving their light or requiring repeated observations.

• Planetary transitCompared with: It can detect planets without requiring repeated alignment of a planet with its own star.

• Free-floating planetRelated: Microlensing can detect isolated masses without requiring their own detectable light.

• Planetary massCompared with: Microlensing can estimate planet masses through a different observational route than stellar wobble.

• Planetary-mass objectRelated: Microlensing can reveal isolated planetary-mass lenses that emit too little light for direct detection.

• Exoplanet detectionRelated: A planet can create a brief, distinctive deviation in a lensing event.

• Rogue planetRelated: A rogue planet can reveal itself by lensing a background star despite emitting little light.

• Jupiter massRelated: Microlensing surveys often report companion masses as fractions or multiples of Jupiter’s mass.

• Giant planetRelated: Microlensing has detected giant planets at orbital distances often missed by transit and radial-velocity surveys.

• Messier 22Related: Monitoring stars toward Messier 22 can reveal otherwise unseen foreground objects.