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Planetary Microlensing: Present Status and Long-term Goals | Penny D. Sackett
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14 Jul 1999 | Subject: | astro-ph | Abstract: | Massive gravitational microlensing programs were begun about a decade ago as a means to search for compact baryonic dark matter in the Galaxy, but before the first events were detected the technique was also proposed as a means of detecting extra-solar planets in our Galaxy. Current microlensing planet searches, which have been underway for four years, are sensitive to jovian-mass planets orbiting a few to several AU from their parent Galactic stars. Within two years, sufficient data should be in hand to characterize or meaningfully constrain the frequency of massive planets in this range of parameter space, nicely complementing information about planets at smaller orbital radii now being provided by radial velocity searches. In principle, the technique could be pushed to smaller planetary masses, but only if a larger number of faint microlensed sources can be monitored with higher precision and temporal sampling. The VST on Paranal, with spectroscopic follow-up with the VLT, may be the ideal instrument for such an ambitious program. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9907185 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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