Astrometric Resolution of Severely Degenerate Binary Microlensing Events

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2000-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001193v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, including 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/309180

We investigate whether the "close/wide" class of degeneracies in caustic-crossing binary microlensing events can be broken astrometrically. Dominik showed that these degeneracies are particularly severe because they arise from a degeneracy in the lens equation itself rather than a mere "accidental" mimicking of one light curve by another. A massive observing campaign of five microlensing collaborations was unable to break this degeneracy photometrically in the case of the binary lensing event MACHO 98-SMC-1. We show that this degeneracy indeed causes the image centroids of the wide and close solutions to follow an extremely similar pattern of motion during the time when the source is in or near the caustic. Nevertheless, the two image centroids are displaced from one another and this displacement is detectable by observing the event at late times. Photometric degeneracies therefore can be resolved astrometrically, even for these most severe cases.

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