Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-22
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.353:69,2004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages with 7 EPS figures embedded, LaTeX2e using mn2e.cls. Final version, tables clarifying meaning and constraints on para
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08046.x
Among all galactic microlensing events, those involving a passage of the observed source star over the caustic created by a binary lens are particularly useful in providing information about stellar atmospheres, the dynamics of stellar populations in our own and neighbouring galaxies, and the statistical properties of stellar and sub-stellar binaries. This paper presents a comprehensive guide for modelling and interpreting the lightcurves obtained in events involving fold-caustic crossings. A new general, consistent, and optimal choice of parameters provides a deep understanding of the involved features, avoids numerical difficulties and minimizes correlations between model parameters. While the photometric data of a microlensing event around a caustic crossing itself do not provide constraints on the characteristics of the underlying binary lens and does not allow predictions of the behaviour of other regions of the lightcurve, vital constraints can be obtained in an efficient way if these are combined with a few simple characteristics of data outside the caustic crossings. A corresponding algorithm containing some improvements over an earlier approach which takes into account multi-site observations is presented and discussed in detail together with the arising parameter constraints paying special attention to the role of source and background fluxes.
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