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太阳系外卫星作为引力微透镜的可探测性

Detectability of extrasolar moons as gravitational microlenses

Christine Liebig, Joachim Wambsganss

摘要:

我们评估了引力透镜作为一种探测太阳系外卫星的技术。自2004年以来,引力微透镜已经成功地应用于太阳系外行星的探测。原则上,这种方法对低至地球质量甚至是地球质量的一小部分的质量都很敏感,因此研究太阳系外行星卫星的微透镜效应似乎是很自然的。我们探索最简单的三透镜系统,包含一颗恒星,一颗行星和一颗卫星。从微透镜的角度来看,这个系统可以被建模为一个特殊的三元组,具有与统一非常不同的分级质量比。由于月球围绕行星运行,行星与月球之间的距离与行星和恒星之间的距离相比很小。这样的配置可以导致焦散线的复杂干涉。我们目前的可探测性和检测极限通过比较三透镜光变曲线最适合的二元光变曲线所造成的双透镜系统,包括主恒星和行星-没有月亮。我们模拟放大模式,涵盖了一系列的质量和分离值,使用逆射线拍摄技术。这些模式是通过分析大量的光变曲线和拟合一个二进制的情况下,他们每个人。卡方标准被用来量化月球的探测能力,在一些选定的三透镜方案。我们的模拟结果表明,它是可行的发现太阳系外卫星通过引力微透镜通过频繁和高精度的监测异常银河系微透镜事件与矮源星。

英文摘要:

We evaluate gravitational lensing as a technique for the detection of extrasolar moons. Since 2004 gravitational microlensing has been successfully applied as a detection method for extrasolar planets. In principle, the method is sensitive to masses as low as an Earth mass or even a fraction of it. Hence it seems natural to investigate the microlensing effects of moons around extrasolar planets. We explore the simplest conceivable triple lens system, containing one star, one planet and one moon. From a microlensing point of view, this system can be modelled as a particular triple with hierarchical mass ratios very different from unity. Since the moon orbits the planet, the planet-moon separation will be small compared to the distance between planet and star. Such a configuration can lead to a complex interference of caustics. We present detectability and detection limits by comparing triple-lens light curves to best-fit binary light curves as caused by a double-lens system consisting of host star and planet -- without moon. We simulate magnification patterns covering a range of mass and separation values using the inverse ray shooting technique. These patterns are processed by analysing a large number of light curves and fitting a binary case to each of them. A chi-squared criterion is used to quantify the detectability of the moon in a number of selected triple-lens scenarios. The results of our simulations indicate that it is feasible to discover extrasolar moons via gravitational microlensing through frequent and highly precise monitoring of anomalous Galactic microlensing events with dwarf source stars.

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