Here I provide various animations of microlensing events, to help our poor imagination embrace these beautiful creatures. Two general classes of movies can be found here. The first consists of the basic examples of synthetic events, which should serve as a tool for enhancing our intuition. Second class contains the real events (usually with data points), that were actually observed and modelled.

Examples

Standard event

Single lens, finite source effect

Single lens, centroid motion

Binary lens, normal source

Binary lens, large source

Lens and source trajectories as seen from Earth

Single lens - parallax effect - photometry

Single lens - parallax effect - astrometry

Real events

Gaia16aye (+ astrometry from Gaia)

Gaia19bld (+ images motion from PIONIER)

Gaia21auw

Gaia20fnr