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AUGMENTING WFIRST MICROLENSING WITH A GROUND-BASED TELESCOPE NETWORK KCI 등재 SCOPUS

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천문학회지 (Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society)
한국천문학회 (Korean Astronomical Society)
초록

Augmenting the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) microlensing campaigns with intensive observations from a ground-based network of wide-field survey telescopes would have several major advantages. First, it would enable full two-dimensional (2-D) vector microlens parallax measurements for a substantial fraction of low-mass lenses as well as planetary and binary events that show caustic crossing features. For a significant fraction of the free-floating planet (FFP) events and all caustic-crossing planetary/binary events, these 2-D parallax measurements directly lead to complete solutions (mass, distance, transverse velocity) of the lens object (or lens system). For even more events, the complementary ground-based observations will yield 1-D parallax measurements. Together with the 1-D parallaxes from WFIRST alone, they can probe the entire mass range M & M⊕. For luminous lenses, such 1-D parallax measurements can be promoted to complete solutions (mass, distance, transverse velocity) by high-resolution imaging. This would provide crucial information not only about the hosts of planets and other lenses, but also enable a much more precise Galactic model. Other benefits of such a survey include improved understanding of binaries (particularly with low mass primaries), and sensitivity to distant ice-giant and gas-giant companions of WFIRST lenses that cannot be detected by WFIRST itself due to its restricted observing windows. Existing ground-based microlensing surveys can be employed if WFIRST is pointed at lower-extinction fields than is currently envisaged. This would come at some cost to the event rate. Therefore the benefits of improved characterization of lenses must be weighed against these costs.

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Abstract
1. INTRODUCTION
2. MICROLENSING PARALLAXES
3. WFIRST + GROUND PARALLAXES
4. ONE-DIMENSIONAL PARALLAXES
    4.1. WFIRST-only 1-D Parallaxes
    4.2. Combined Orbital and Two-Observatory1-D Parallaxes
    4.3. Xallarap and Lens Orbital Motion
    4.4. Value of πE,∥ Measurements
    4.5. Value of πE Measurements
5. EINSTEIN RADIUS MEASUREMENTS: θE
    5.1. WFIRST-only Einstein-Radius Measurements
    5.2. WFIRST +Ground Einstein-Radius Measurements
    5.3. Value of θE Measurements
6. COMPLETE SOLUTIONS FOR PLANETARY ANDBINARY EVENTS
7. AUXILIARY BENEFITS OF WFIRSTMICROLENSING IN OPTICAL FIELDS
8. DISCUSSION
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저자
  • Wei Zhu(Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University/Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy) Corresponding author
  • Andrew Gould(Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University/Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy/Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)