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用地基望远镜网络增强WFIRST微透镜

Augmenting WFIRST Microlensing with a Ground-based Telescope Network

Wei Zhu, Andrew Gould

摘要:

通过地面宽视场巡天望远镜网络的密集观测来增强\emph{WFIRST}微透镜活动将有几个主要优点。首先,它将使完整的二维(2-D)矢量微透镜视差测量的低质量透镜的相当大的一部分,以及行星和双事件,显示焦散交叉功能。对于相当一部分的自由浮动行星(FFP)事件和所有的焦散相交行星/双星事件,这些2-D视差测量直接导致透镜对象(或透镜系统)的完整解决方案(质量,距离,横向速度)。对于更多的事件,补充的地面观测将产生一维视差测量。与\emph{WFIRST}单独的一维弛豫一起,它们可以探测整个质量范围$M\gtrsim M_\oplus$。对于发光透镜,这种1-D视差测量可以通过高分辨率成像提升为完整的解决方案(质量,距离,横向速度)。这将不仅提供关于行星和其他透镜的主机的关键信息,而且还可以实现更精确的银河系模型。这种巡天的其他好处包括提高对双星(特别是低质量的主星)的理解,以及对\emph{WFIRST}透镜体的遥远冰巨星和气体巨星同伴的敏感性,这些透镜体由于其有限的观测窗口而无法被\emph{WFIRST}本身探测到。如果\emph{WFIRST}指向比目前设想的更低的消光场,则可以采用现有的地基微透镜测量。这将以事件发生率为代价。因此,必须权衡改进透镜表征的益处与这些成本。

英文摘要:

Augmenting the \emph{WFIRST} microlensing campaigns with intensive observations from a ground-based network of wide-field survey telescopes would have several major advantages. First, it would enable full two-dimensional (2-D) vector microlens parallax measurements for a substantial fraction of low-mass lenses as well as planetary and binary events that show caustic crossing features. For a significant fraction of the free-floating planet (FFP) events and all caustic-crossing planetary/binary events, these 2-D parallax measurements directly lead to complete solutions (mass, distance, transverse velocity) of the lens object (or lens system). For even more events, the complementary ground-based observations will yield 1-D parallax measurements. Together with the 1-D parallaxes from \emph{WFIRST} alone, they can probe the entire mass range $M\gtrsim M_\oplus$. For luminous lenses, such 1-D parallax measurements can be promoted to complete solutions (mass, distance, transverse velocity) by high-resolution imaging. This would provide crucial information not only about the hosts of planets and other lenses, but also enable a much more precise Galactic model. Other benefits of such a survey include improved understanding of binaries (particularly with low mass primaries), and sensitivity to distant ice-giant and gas-giant companions of \emph{WFIRST} lenses that cannot be detected by \emph{WFIRST} itself due to its restricted observing windows. Existing ground-based microlensing surveys can be employed if \emph{WFIRST} is pointed at lower-extinction fields than is currently envisaged. This would come at some cost to the event rate. Therefore the benefits of improved characterization of lenses must be weighed against these costs.

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