# Characterizing Lenses and Lensed Stars of High-Magnification Gravitational Microlensing Events With Lenses Passing Over Source Stars

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We present the analysis of the light curves of 9 high-magnification gravitational microlensing events with lenses passing over source stars, including OGLE-2004-BLG-254, MOA-2007-BLG-176, MOA-2007-BLG-233/OGLE-2007-BLG-302, MOA-2009-BLG-174, MOA-2010-BLG-436, MOA-2011-BLG-093, MOA-2011-BLG-274, OGLE-2011-BLG-0990/MOA-2011-BLG-300, and OGLE-2011-BLG-1101/MOA-2011-BLG-325. For all events, we measure the linear limb-darkening coefficients of the surface brightness profile of source stars by measuring the deviation of the light curves near the peak affected by the finite-source effect. For 8 events, we measure the Einstein radii and the lens-source relative proper motions. Among them, 6 events (OGLE-2004-BLG-254, MOA-2007-BLG-176, MOA-2007-BLG-233/OGLE-2007-BLG-302, MOA-2011-BLG-093, MOA-2011-BLG-274, and OGLE-2011-BLG-0990/MOA-2011-BLG-300) are found to have Einstein radii less than 0.2 mas, making the lenses candidates of very low-mass stars or brown dwarfs. For MOA-2011-BLG-274, especially, the small Einstein radius of $\theta_{\rm E}\sim 0.09$ mas combined with the short time scale of $t_{\rm E}\sim 3.1$ days suggests the possibility that the lens is a free-floating planet. For MOA-2009-BLG-174, we measure the lens parallax and thus uniquely determine the physical parameters of the lens. We also find that the measured lens mass of $\sim 0.8\ M_\odot$ is consistent with that of a star blended with the source, suggesting that the blend is probably the lens. For the systematic integration of information that can be extracted from a sample of events with lenses passing over source stars, we also present the results of 8 other events that were previously analyzed.

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