Collaborative Project: Gravitational Microlensing of the Galactic Bulge Stars

利用现代全景探测器和现代计算机，人们正在对银河系凸起中的可变物体进行大规模的光度搜索。每年获得的光度测量值约为1亿。主要目标是探测中间星系盘中的恒星、棕矮星和行星对凸起恒星的引力微透镜效应。将生成各种变星的大型星表，并向任何感兴趣的调查人员提供。

Using modern panoramic detectors and modern computers a massive photometric search for variable objects in the Galactic Bulge is being undertaken. About 100,000,000 photometric measurements are obtained each year. The primary goal is to detect gravitational microlensing of the Bulge stars by stars, brown dwarfs and planets in the intervening galactic disk. A large catalogue of variable stars of all kinds will be generated and made available to any interested investigator.