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AI providing new light on lensing degeneracies

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Machine-learning methods are used to provide a more unified picture of mathematical degeneracies in light curves of planetary microlensing events.

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Fig. 1: Different physical planet–host configurations can result in nearly identical light curves of planetary gravitational microlensing events.

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Mróz, P. AI providing new light on lensing degeneracies. Nat Astron 6, 774–775 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01710-2

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