MACHO项目HST后续:大麦云云微透镜源星
The MACHO Project HST Follow-Up: The Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Source Stars
摘要:
利用哈勃空间望远镜(HST)WFPC 2测光仪对13颗微透镜源星进行了为期5.7年的大麦云(LMC)巡天观测。微透镜源星的识别是通过使用差分图像分析(DIA)在地基的CAMO图像中获得精确的质心,然后将DIA坐标转换到HST坐标系来实现的。这些来源都与背景星系不一致,这排除了LMC后面星系中被错误识别的超新星或活动星系核污染的可能性。这支持了以下结论:由于非微透镜形式的变异性,CNOO LMC微透镜样品仅具有少量污染。我们比较WFPC2源恒星的大小与来自微透镜拟合光变曲线数据的透镜通量预测。在大多数情况下,源星的亮度是准确预测的。最后,我们开发了一个统计约束的位置的大麦云云(LMC)微透镜源恒星在LMC的恒星和尘埃的分布,并比较这对LMC微透镜的各种模型的预测。该测试排除了置信度> 90%的模型,其中超过80%的源星位于LMC后面。试图用一组背景光源来解释CNOO所看到的过量LMC微透镜光学深度的外来模型不受欢迎或被排除在此测试之外。模型中,大多数的镜头驻留在一个晕或球体分布与银河系或LMC是一致的,这些数据,但LMC晕或球体模型的青睐相结合的ARO和EROS微透镜的结果。
英文摘要:
We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 photometry of 13 microlensed source stars from the 5.7 year Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) survey conducted by the MACHO Project. The microlensing source stars are identified by deriving accurate centroids in the ground-based MACHO images using difference image analysis (DIA) and then transforming the DIA coordinates to the HST frame. None of these sources is coincident with a background galaxy, which rules out the possibility that the MACHO LMC microlensing sample is contaminated with misidentified supernovae or AGN in galaxies behind the LMC. This supports the conclusion that the MACHO LMC microlensing sample has only a small amount of contamination due to non-microlensing forms of variability. We compare the WFPC2 source star magnitudes with the lensed flux predictions derived from microlensing fits to the light curve data. In most cases the source star brightness is accurately predicted. Finally, we develop a statistic which constrains the location of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) microlensing source stars with respect to the distributions of stars and dust in the LMC and compare this to the predictions of various models of LMC microlensing. This test excludes at > 90% confidence level models where more than 80% of the source stars lie behind the LMC. Exotic models that attempt to explain the excess LMC microlensing optical depth seen by MACHO with a population of background sources are disfavored or excluded by this test. Models in which most of the lenses reside in a halo or spheroid distribution associated with either the Milky Way or the LMC are consistent which these data, but LMC halo or spheroid models are favored by the combined MACHO and EROS microlensing results.
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