Wednesday, July 18, 2012

1207.4034 (Ahmad Mehrabi et al.)

Studying wave optics in exoplanet microlensing light curves    [PDF]

Ahmad Mehrabi, Sohrab Rahvar
We study the wave optics feature of the gravitational microlensing by a binary system composed of parent star and a planet. In the binary system, near the caustic lines multiple images play the role of secondary sources for the observer, in analogy to the double slit Young's experiment. In the case of having coherent wave fronts from the source on the lens plane, images can produce diffraction pattern on the observer plane. For the binary lensing system we have two modes of close and wide images around the planet and lens star and these images can produce two different types of fringes with the high and low frequencies on the observer plane. By taking into account the finite size of the source star, enhancements in the diffraction fringes get dimmer. For the observational prospects, we study this effect for the SKA project in the case of resonance and the high magnification exoplanet channels. This method can partially break degeneracies between the lens parameters.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4034

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