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The complete catalogue of light curves in equal-mass binary microlensing

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21/06/2015
Author
Liebig, Christine
D'Ago, Giuseppe
Bozza, Valerio
Dominik, Martin
Funder
The Royal Society
Grant ID
UF100010 / UF130581
Keywords
Gravitational lensing: micro
Methods: numerical
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
NDAS
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Abstract
The light curves observed in microlensing events due to binary lenses span an extremely wide variety of forms, characterized by U-shaped caustic crossings and/or additional smoother peaks. However, all peaks of the binary-lens light curve can be traced back to features of caustics of the lens system. Moreover, all peaks can be categorized as one of only four types (cusp-grazing, cusp-crossing, fold-crossing or fold-grazing). This enables us to present the first complete map of the parameter space of the equal-mass case by identifying regions in which light curves feature the same number and nature of peaks. We find that the total number of morphologies that can be obtained is 73 out of 232 different regions. The partition of the parameter space so-obtained provides a new key to optimize modelling of observed events through a clever choice of initial conditions for fitting algorithms.
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Liebig , C , D'Ago , G , Bozza , V & Dominik , M 2015 , ' The complete catalogue of light curves in equal-mass binary microlensing ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 450 , no. 2 , pp. 1565-1584 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv733
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv733
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
Rights
This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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This publication was supported by NPRP grant NPRP-09-476-1-78 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation).
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URL
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.450.1565L
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6782

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