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引力微透镜事件的测光、天体测量和偏振测量观测

Photometric, Astrometric and Polarimetric observations of gravitational microlensing events

Sedighe Sajadian, Sohrab Rahvar

摘要:

微引力透镜作为一种独特的天体物理学工具,可以用来研究距离我们几千秒差距的恒星的大气。这种能力是由于光线在透镜的引力场中弯曲而产生的,透镜可以在透镜作用期间放大背景源恒星的光。此外,这种光弯曲的特性之一是通过在透镜位置的任一侧产生失真图像来破坏源的圆形对称性。这一性质使得观察偏振态和光心位移成为可能。在简单和二元微透镜事件中,除了在折叠奇点中,它们是相互垂直的。在这项工作中,我们调查的偏振和天体测量观测的优点,在微透镜事件(i)研究表面的源星和它的斑点和(ii)确定源星相对于透镜的轨迹。最后,我们分析了OGLE目录中最大的微透镜事件样本,并表明在银河系膨胀方向上几乎有4.3%的事件,大型望远镜的偏振信号是可以观察到的。

英文摘要:

The gravitational microlensing as a unique astrophysical tool can be used for studying the atmosphere of stars thousands of parsec far from us. This capability results from the bending of light rays in the gravitational field of a lens which can magnify the light of a background source star during the lensing. Moreover, one of properties of this light bending is that the circular symmetry of the source is broken by producing distorted images at either side of the lens position. This property makes the possibility of the observation of the polarization and the light centroid shift of images. Assigning vectors for these two parameters, they are perpendicular to each other in the simple and binary microlensing events, except in the fold singularities. In this work, we investigate the advantages of polarimetric and astrometric observations during microlensing events for (i) studying the surface of the source star and spots on it and (ii) determining the trajectory of source stars with respect to the lens. Finally we analyze the largest sample of microlensing events from the OGLE catalog and show that for almost ~ 4.3 per cent of events in the direction of the Galactic bulge, the polarization signals with large telescopes would be observable.

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