Seeing Star Formation Regions with Gravitational Microlensing

Details Seeing Star Formation Regions with Gravitational Microlensing Seeing Star Formation Regions with Gravitational Microlensing

2006-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601667v1

Astrophys.J. 643 (2006) 260-265

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 8 figures, ApJ accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/502797

We qualitatively study the effects of gravitational microlensing on our view of unresolved extragalactic star formation regions. Using a general gravitational microlensing configuration, we perform a number of simulations that reveal that specific imprints of the star forming region are imprinted, both photometrically and spectroscopically, upon observations. Such observations have the potential to reveal the nature and size of these star forming regions, through the degree of variability observed in a monitoring campaign, and hence resolve the star formation regions in distant galaxies which are too small to be probed via more standard techniques.

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