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MOA 2003-BLG-37: A Bulge Jerk-Parallax Microlens Degeneracy | | B.-G. Park
; D.L. DePoy
; B.S. Gaudi
; A. Gould
; C. Han
; R.W. Pogge
; F. Abe
; D.P. Bennett
; I.A. Bond
; S. Eguchi
; Y. Furuta
; J.B. Hearnshaw
; K. Kamiya
; P.M. Kilmartin
; Y. Kurata
; K. Masuda
; Y. Matsubara
; Y. Muraki
; S. Noda
; K. Okajima
; N.J. Rattenbury
; T. Sako
; T. Sekiguchi
; D.J. Sullivan
; T. Sumi
; P.J. Tristram
; T. Yanagisawa
; P.C.M. Yock
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13 Dec 2003 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) 166-172 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | The microFUN Collaboration) and F. Abe, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, S. Eguchi, Y. Furuta, J.B. Hearnshaw, K. Kamiya, P.M. Kilmartin, Y. Kurata, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, Y. Muraki, S. Noda, K. Okajima, N.J. Rattenbury, T. Sako, T. Sekiguchi, D.J. Sullivan, | | Abstract: | We analyze the Galactic bulge microlensing event MOA-2003-BLG-37. Although the Einstein timescale is relatively short, t_e=43 days, the lightcurve displays deviations consistent with parallax effects due to the Earth’s accelerated motion. We show that the chi^2 surface has four distinct local minima that are induced by the ``jerk-parallax’’ degeneracy, with pairs of solutions having projected Einstein radii, ilde r_e = 1.76 AU and 1.28 AU, respectively. This is the second event displaying such a degeneracy and the first toward the Galactic bulge. For both events, the jerk-parallax formalism accurately describes the offsets between the different solutions, giving hope that when extra solutions exist in future events, they can easily be found. However, the morphologies of the chi^2 surfaces for the two events are quite different, implying that much remains to be understood about this degeneracy. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0401250 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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