Colour Change Measurements of Gravitational Microlensing Events by Using the Difference Image Analysis Method

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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total 8 pages, including 4 figures and no table, MNRAS, in press

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10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.03926.x

Detecting colour changes of a gravitational microlensing event induced by the limb-darkened extended source effect is important to obtain useful information both about the lens and source star. However, precise measurements of the colour changes are hampered by blending, which also causes colour changes of the event. In this paper, we show that although the colour change measured from the subtracted image by using the recently developed photometric method of the ``difference image analysis'' (DIA) differs from the colour change measured by using the conventional method based on the extraction of the individual source stars' point spread functions, the curve of the colour changes (colour curve) constructed by using the DIA method enables one to obtain the same information about the lens and source star, but with significantly reduced uncertainties due to the absence of blending. We investigate the patterns of the DIA colour curves for both single lens and binary lens events by constructing colour change maps.

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