Binary Source Lensing and the Repeating OGLE EWS Events

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2009-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2489v1

Acta Astron. 58 (2008) 345-358

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

14 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

A microlensing event may exhibit a second brightening when the source and/or the lens is a binary star. Previous study revealed 19 such repeating event candidates among 4120 investigated microlensing light curves of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). The same study gave the probability ~ 0.0027 for a repeating event caused by a binary lens. We present the simulations of binary source lensing events and calculate the probability of observing a second brightening in the light curve. Applying to simulated light curves the same algorithm as was used in the analysis of real OGLE data, we find the probability ~ 0.0018 of observing a second brightening in a binary source lensing curve. The expected and measured numbers of repeating events are in agreement only if one postulates that all lenses and all sources are binary. Since the fraction of binaries is believed to be <= 50%, there seems to be a discrepancy.

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