A systematic fitting scheme for caustic-crossing microlensing events

Details A systematic fitting scheme for caustic-crossing microlensing events A systematic fitting scheme for caustic-crossing microlensing events

2009-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/0901.1285v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

12 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14615.x

We outline a method for fitting binary-lens caustic-crossing microlensing events based on the alternative model parameterisation proposed and detailed in Cassan (2008). As an illustration of our methodology, we present an analysis of OGLE-2007-BLG-472, a double-peaked Galactic microlensing event with a source crossing the whole caustic structure in less than three days. In order to identify all possible models we conduct an extensive search of the parameter space, followed by a refinement of the parameters with a Markov Chain-Monte Carlo algorithm. We find a number of low-chi2 regions in the parameter space, which lead to several distinct competitive best models. We examine the parameters for each of them, and estimate their physical properties. We find that our fitting strategy locates several minima that are difficult to find with other modelling strategies and is therefore a more appropriate method to fit this type of events.

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