Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-02-03
CNU-PHYS-4/2002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
total 7 pages, including 3 figures and no table, submitted to Journal of Korea Astronomy Society (JKAS)
Scientific paper
Gaudi, Naber & Sackett pointed out that if an event is caused by a lens system containing more than two planets, all planets will affect the central region of the magnification pattern, and thus the existence of the multiple planets can be inferred by detecting additionally deformed anomalies from intensive monitoring of high magnification events. Unfortunately, this method has important limitations in identifying the existence of multiple planets and determining their parameters due to the degeneracy of the resulting light curve anomalies from those induced by a single planet and the complexity of multiple planet lensing models. In this paper, we propose a new channel to search for multiple planets via microlensing. The method is based on the fact that the anomalies induced by multiple planets are well approximated by the superposition of those of the single planet systems where the individual planet-primary pairs act as independent lens systems. Then, if the source trajectory passes both of the outer deviation regions induced by the individual planets, one can unambiguously identify the existence of the multiple planets. We illustrate that the probability of successively detecting light curve anomalies induced by two Jovian-mass planets located in the lensing zone through this channel will be substantial. Since the individual anomalies can be well modeled by much simpler single planet lensing models, the proposed method has an important advantage of allowing one to accurately determine the parameters of the individual planets.
Han Cheongho
Park Myeong-Gu
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