On the Intrinsic Bias in detecting Caustic Crossings between Galactic Halo and Self-lensing Events in the Magellanic Clouds

Details On the Intrinsic Bias in detecting Caustic Crossings between Galactic Halo and Self-lensing Events in the Magellanic Clouds On the Intrinsic Bias in detecting Caustic Crossings between Galactic Halo and Self-lensing Events in the Magellanic Clouds

1999-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905141v1

CNU-A&SS-03/99

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

total 4 pages, including 3 Figures and no Table, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02787.x

In this paper, we investigate the intrinsic bias in detecting caustic crossings between Galactic halo and self-lensing events in the Magellanic Clouds. For this, we determine the region for optimal caustic-crossing detection in the parameter space of the physical binary separations, $\ell$, and the total binary lens mass, $M$, and find that the optimal regions for both populations of events are similar to each other. In particular, if the Galactic halo is composed of lenses with the claimed average mass of $\sim 0.5 M_\odot$, the optimal binary separation range of Galactic halo events of $3.5 AU\lesssim \ell\lesssim 14 AU$ matches well with that of a Magellanic Cloud self-lensing event caused by a binary lens with a total mass $M\sim 1 M_\odot$; well within the mass range of the most probable lens population of stars in the Magellanic Clouds. Therefore, our computation implies that if the binary fractions and the distributions of binary separations of the two populations of lenses are not significantly different from each other, there is no strong detection bias against Galactic halo caustic-crossing events.

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