Probing the Atmospheres of Planets Orbiting Microlensed Stars via Polarization Variability

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2000-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006261v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312826

We present a new method to identify and probe planetary companions of stars in the Galactic Bulge and Magellanic Clouds using gravitational microlensing. While spectroscopic studies of these planets is well beyond current observational techniques, monitoring polarization fluctuations during high magnification events induced by binary microlensing events will probe the composition of the planetary atmospheres, an observation which otherwise is currently unattainable even for nearby planetary systems.

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