Distinguishing central perturbations by binary stellar and planetary systems under the moderately strong finite-source effect

Details Distinguishing central perturbations by binary stellar and planetary systems under the moderately strong finite-source effect Distinguishing central perturbations by binary stellar and planetary systems under the moderately strong finite-source effect

2011-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/1108.1834v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

18 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ApJ

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We investigate high-magnification events caused by wide binary stellar and planetary systems under the moderately strong finite-source effect where the diameter of the source star is comparable with the caustics induced by a binary companion and a planet. From this investigation, we find that a characteristic feature in the central perturbations induced by the binary systems commonly appears in a constant range where the size of the caustic induced by the binary companion is between 1.5 and 1.9 times of the diameter of the source, whereas in the central perturbations induced by the planetary systems the feature commonly appears in a range where the ratio of the size of the caustic induced by the planet to the source diameter changes with the planet/primary mass ratio. High-magnification events caused by the binary and planetary systems with the characteristic feature produce a distinctive short-duration bump in the residuals from the single-lensing light curve, where the bump occurs near the time of peak magnification of the events. Because of a well-known planet/binary degeneracy, we compare binary- and planetary-lensing events with the short-duration bump in the residuals. As a result, we find the features of the binary-lensing events that are discriminated from the planetary-lensing events despite the moderately strong finite-source effect and thus can be used to immediately distinguish between the binary and planetary companions. We also find the feature that appears only in binary-lensing events with a very low mass ratio or planetary-lensing events. This implies that the lens systems with the feature have a very low mass binary companion (such as a brown dwarf) or a planet.

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