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银河系膨胀像素透镜事件

Galactic Bulge Pixel Lensing Events

Cheongho Han

摘要:

Gould & DePoy提出了一个对银河系凸起的像素透镜调查,使用一个小孔径(~65 mm)相机,一个大像素尺寸(10”)探测器和故意退化的光学系统,实现30”PSF。在本文中,我们估计的事件率,这种像素透镜调查预期在各种检测标准,其特征在于阈值信噪比,(S/N)_{th},事件持续时间,t_{dur,th},并调查可检测事件的特性。从这次调查中,我们发现,事件发生率在6/年-120/年的范围内变化显着,这在很大程度上取决于所施加的检测标准,这意味着最大限度地提高事件检测,它将是必不可少的,以确定事件,通过勤奋地检查光的变化,并及时进行后续观察所确定的事件。与经典透镜巡天探测到的事件相比,像素透镜巡天探测到的事件通常涉及更亮的源星,并且具有更高的放大率。对于在(S/N)_{th}=10和t_{dur,th} =6 hr判据下可探测到的象元透镜事件,我们发现源星的基线亮度平均比经典透镜事件亮约2 mag,约90%的放大率A> 20,约40%的放大率A>200。因此,对像元透镜事件的后续观测将提供高质量的数据,使人们能够精确地确定透镜参数,并获得关于透镜和源星的额外信息。特别是,A>20的高放大事件将是高效行星探测的重要目标,并且可以唯一地确定EME的单个透镜的质量,距离和横向速度。

英文摘要:

Gould & DePoy proposed a pixel lensing survey towards the Galactic bulge using a small aperture (~65 mm) camera with a large pixel size (10") detector and deliberately degraded optics achieving 30" PSF. In this paper, we estimate the event rate of this pixel lensing survey expected under various detection criteria, which are characterized by the threshold signal-to-noise ratio, (S/N)_{th}, and event duration, t_{dur,th}, and investigate the characteristics of the detectable events. From this investigation, we find that the event rate varies significantly in the range ~6/yr - 120/yr depending strongly on the imposed detection criteria, implying that to maximize event detections it will be essential to identify events by diligently inspecting light variations and to promptly conduct followup observations for the identified events. Compared to events detectable from classic lensing surveys, the events detectable from the pixel lensing survey will generally involve brighter source stars and have higher amplifications. For the pixel lensing events detectable under the criteria of (S/N)_{th}=10 and t_{dur,th}=6 hr, we find that the baseline brightness of source stars will be in average ~2 mag brighter than those of classic lensing events and ~90% will have amplifications A> 20 and ~40% will be extreme EMEs with A>200. Therefore, followup observations of the pixel lensing events will provide high quality data, which enable one to precisely determine the lensing parameters and obtain extra-information about the lenses and source stars. Especially, high amplifications events with A>20 will be important targets for high-efficiency planet detections and one can uniquely determine the mass, distance, and transverse speed of individual lenses for EMEs.

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