A Re-examination of the "Planetary" Lensing Events in M22

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2001-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112264v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted Dec 11, 2001 by ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/339137

We have carried out further analysis of the tentative, short-term brightenings reported by Sahu et al. (2001), which were suggested to be possible lensings of Galactic-bulge stars by free-floating planets in the globular cluster M22. Closer examination shows that--unlikely as it may seem--small, point-like cosmic rays had hit very close to the same star in both of a pair of cosmic-ray-split images, which cause the apparent brightenings of stars at the times and locations reported. We show that the observed number of double hits is consistent with the frequency of cosmic rays in WFPC2 images, given the number of stars and epochs observed. Finally, we point to ways in which cosmic rays can be more directly distinguished.

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