Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-07-28
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 328 (2001) 611
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
total 6 pages, including 5 figures and no table, MNRAS, submitted, better quality pdf file is avalilable at http://astroph.c
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04903.x
If gravitational microlensing occurs in a binary-source system, both source components are magnified, and the resulting light curve deviates from the standard one of a single source event. However, in most cases only one source component is highly magnified and the other component (the companion) can be treated as a simple blending source: blending approximation. In this paper, we show that, unlike the light curves, the astrometric curves, representing the trajectories of the source image centroid, of an important fraction of binary-source events will not be sufficiently well modeled by the blending effect alone. This is because the centroid shift induced by the source companion endures to considerable distances from the lens. Therefore, in determining the lens parameters from astrometric curves to be measured by future high-precision astrometric instruments, it will be important to take the full effect of the source companion into consideration.
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