Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-07-11
Astrophys.J. 579 (2002) 430-436
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, published in ApJ; several minor typos corrected from published version; subroutines may be downl
Scientific paper
10.1086/342880
Occultation and microlensing are different limits of the same phenomena of one body passing in front of another body. We derive a general exact analytic expression which describes both microlensing and occultation in the case of spherical bodies with a source of uniform brightness and a non-relativistic foreground body. We also compute numerically the case of a source with quadratic limb-darkening. In the limit that the gravitational deflection angle is comparable to the angular size of the foreground body, both microlensing and occultation occur as the objects align. Such events may be used to constrain the size ratio of the lens and source stars, the limb-darkening coefficients of the source star, and the surface gravity of the lens star (if the lens and source distances are known). Application of these results to microlensing during transits in binaries and giant-star microlensing are discussed. These results unify the microlensing and occultation limits and should be useful for rapid model fitting of microlensing, eclipse, and "microccultation" events.
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