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RIGOROUS “RICH ARGUMENT” IN MICROLENSING PARALLAX KCI 등재 SCOPUS

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

I show that when the observables (πE, tE, θE, πs, μs) are well measured up to a discrete degeneracy in the microlensing parallax vector πE, the relative likelihood of the di
erent solutions can be written in closed form Pi = KHiBi, where Hi is the number of stars (potential lenses) having the mass and kinematics of the inferred parameters of solution i and Bi is an additional factor that is formally derived from the Jacobian of the transformation from Galactic to microlensing parameters. Here tE is the Einstein timescale, θE is the angular Einstein radius, and (πs;μs) are the (parallax, proper motion) of the microlensed source. The Jacobian term Bi constitutes an explicit evaluation of the \Rich Argument", i.e., that there is an extra geometric factor disfavoring large-parallax solutions in addition to the reduced frequency of lenses given by Hi. I also discuss how this analytic expression degrades in the presence of finite errors in the measured observables.

목차
Abstract
1. Introduction 
2. Derivation 
    2.1. Treating (E,N,E,E) as Observables
    2.2. Exact E as the Limit of Small Errors
3. Relaxing Assumptions 
    3.1. Non-Gaussian E Errors
    3.2. No E Measurement
    3.3. Sanity Checks
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저자
  • Andrew Gould(Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Konigstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany/Department of Astronomy Ohio State University, 140 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA)