2006ApJ...649..954A

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2006ApJ...649..954A - Astrophys. J., 649, 954-964 (2006/October-1)

Removing the microlensing blending-parallax degeneracy using source variability.

ASSEF R.J., GOULD A., AFONSO C., ALBERT J.N., ANDERSEN J., ANSARI R., AUBOURG E., BAREYRE P., BEAULIEU J.P., CHARLOT X., COUTURES C., FERLET R., FOUQUE P., GLICENSTEIN J.F., GOLDMAN B., GRAFF D., GROS M., HAISSINSKI J., HAMADACHE C., DE KAT J., LE GUILLOU L., LESQUOY E., LOUP C., MAGNEVILLE C., MARQUETTE J.B., MAURICE E., MAURY A., MILSZTAJN A., MONIEZ M., PALANQUE-DELABROUILLE N., PERDEREAU O., RAHAL Y.R., RICH J., SPIRO M., TISSERAND P., VIDAL-MADJAR A., VIGROUX L., ZYLBERAJCH S. (The EROS-2 Collaboration), BENNETT D.P., BECKER A.C., GRIEST K., VANDEHEI T., WELCH D.L. (The MACHO Collaboration), UDALSKI A., SZYMANSKI M.K., KUBIAK M., PIETRZYNSKI G., SOSZYNSKI I., SZEWCZYK O., WYRZYKOWSKI L. (The OGLE Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

Microlensing event MACHO 97-SMC-1 is one of the rare microlensing events for which the source is a variable star, simply because most variable stars are systematically eliminated from microlensing studies. Using observational data for this event, we show that the intrinsic variability of a microlensed star is a powerful tool for constraining the nature of the lens by breaking the degeneracy between the microlens parallax and the blended light. We also present a statistical test for discriminating the location of the lens based on the χ2 contours of the vector {b.Lambda}, the inverse of the projected velocity. We find that while SMC self-lensing is somewhat favored over halo lensing, neither location can be ruled out with good confidence.

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Journal keyword(s): Cosmology: Gravitational Lensing - Stars: Variables: Other

Simbad objects: 3

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Number of rows : 3
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 NAME SMC G 00 52 38.0 -72 48 01   2.79 2.2     ~ 12317 1
2 MACHO 97-SMC-1 * 01 00 05.6 -72 15 03   18.01 17.9 18.14   ~ 27 0
3 NAME LMC G 05 23 34.6 -69 45 22     0.4     ~ 19090 0

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