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Astrometric Detection of Double Gravitational Microlensing Events | Cheongho Han
; Byeong-Gon Park
; Wonyong Han
; Young Woon Kang
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5 Dec 2001 | Journal: | CNU-PHYS-12/2001 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | Chungbuk National University, Korea), Byeong-Gon Park (KAO), Wonyong Han (KAO), Young Woon Kang (Sejong University, Korea | Abstract: | If a gravitational microlensing event is caused by a widely separated binary lens and the source approaches both lens components, the source flux is successively magnified by the individual lenses: double microlensing events. If events are observed astrometrically, double lensing events are expected to occur with an increased frequency due to the long range astrometric effect of the companion. We find that although the trajectory of the source star image centroid shifts of an astrometric double lensing event has a distorted shape from both of the elliptical ones induced by the individual single lens components, event duplication can be readily identified by the characteristic loop in the trajectory formed during the source’s passage close to the companion. We determine and compare the probabilities of detecting double lensing events from both photometric and astrometric lensing observations by deriving analytic expressions for the relations between binary lensing parameters to become double lensing events. From this determination, we find that for a given set of the binary separation and the mass ratio the astrometric probability is roughly an order higher than the photometric probability. Therefore, we predict that a significant fraction of events that will be followed up by using future high precision interferometeric instruments will be identified as double lensing events. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0112124 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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