Microlensing Detections of Planets in Binary Stellar Systems

Details Microlensing Detections of Planets in Binary Stellar Systems Microlensing Detections of Planets in Binary Stellar Systems

2007-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1992v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, two figures in JPG format

Scientific paper

10.1086/523662

We demonstrate that microlensing can be used for detecting planets in binary stellar systems. This is possible because in the geometry of planetary binary systems where the planet orbits one of the binary component and the other binary star is located at a large distance, both planet and secondary companion produce perturbations at a common region around the planet-hosting binary star and thus the signatures of both planet and binary companion can be detected in the light curves of high-magnification lensing events. We find that identifying planets in binary systems is optimized when the secondary is located in a certain range which depends on the type of the planet. The proposed method can detect planets with masses down to one tenth of the Jupiter mass in binaries with separations <~ 100 AU. These ranges of planet mass and binary separation are not covered by other methods and thus microlensing would be able to make the planetary binary sample richer.

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