Resolving the LMC Microlensing Puzzle: Where are the Lensing Objects?

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Jul 2006

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HST Proposal ID #10903. Cycle 15

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We are requesting 12 HST orbits to continue to investigate the nature of the population that gives rise to the microlensing seen towards the LMC. This proposal builds on the cycle 14 HST program 10583 and will complement the study with 12 yet-to-be discovered microlensing candidates from Fall 2006. Our SuperMacho project is an ongoing ground-based survey on the CTIO 4m that has demonstrated the ability to detect LMC microlensing events via frame subtraction. The combination of high angular resolution and photometric accuracy with HST will allow us to 1 confrim that the detected flux excursions arise from LMC stars, rather than background supernovae or AGN, and 2 obtain reliable baseline flux measurements for the objects in their unlensed state. This latter measurement in important in determining the microlensing optical depth towards the LMC.

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