Analytic Relations between the Observed Gravitational Microlensing Parameters With and Without the Effect of Blending

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1998-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810401v2

CNU-A&SS-10/08

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

total 4 pages, including 4 Figures and no Table, accepted to MNRAS, updated version

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02832.x

When a microlensing light curve is contaminated by blended light from unresolved stars near the line of sight to the lensed star, the light curve shape and corresponding parameterization for the event will differ from the values expected when the event is not affected by blending. As a result, blending makes it difficult to identify the major lens population and to estimate the amount of lensing matter. In order to estimate the effect of blending on the result of lensing experiments, it is, therefore, essential to know how the observed lensing parameters change depending on the fraction of blended light. Previously, the changed lensing parameters were obtained with a statistical method that not only required a large amount of computation time but also was prone to uncertainty. In this paper, we derive analytic relations between the lensing parameters with and without the effect of blending. By using these relations, we investigate the dependence of the observed lensing parameters on the amount of blended light, the impact parameter, and the threshold amplification for event detection.

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