OGLE 2000-BUL-43: A Spectacular Ongoing Parallax Microlensing Event. Difference Image Analysis
OGLE 2000-BUL-43: A Spectacular Ongoing Parallax Microlensing Event. Difference Image Analysis
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OGLE 2000-BUL-43:一场壮观的持续视差微透镜事件。
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2000
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L. Wyrzykowski
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I. Soszyński;K. Żebruń;P. Wozniak;S. Mao;A. Udalski;M. Szymański;M. Kubiak;G. Pietrzyński;O. Szewczyk;L. Wyrzykowski
We present the photometry and theoretical models for a bulge microlensing event OGLE-2000-BUL-43. The event is very bright with I 0 = 13.54 mag, and has a very long time scale, t E = 156 days. The long time scale and its light curve deviation from the standard shape strongly suggest that it may be affected by the parallax effect. We show that OGLE-2000-BUL-43 is the first discovered microlensing event, in which the parallax distortion is observed over a period of 2 years. Difference Image Analysis (DIA) using the PSF matching algorithm of Alard & Lupton enabled photometry accurate to 0.5%, a factor of 4.5 improvement over the standard DoPhot measurements. All photometry obtained with DIA is avaliable electronically. Our analysis indicates that the viewing condition near Jupiter will be optimum and can lead to magnifications ∼ 50 around January 31, 2001. These features offer a great promise for resolving the source (a K giant) and breaking the degeneracy between the lens parameters including the mass of the lens, if the event is observed with the imaging camera on the Cassini space probe. Gravitational microlensing was originally proposed as a method of detecting compact dark matter objects in the Galactic halo (Paczy´nski 1986). However, it also turned out to be an extremely useful method to study Galactic structure, mass functions of stars and potentially extra-solar planetary systems (for a review, see Paczy´nski 1996). Most microlensing events are well described by the standard light curve (e.g., Paczy´nski 1986). Unfortunately, from these light curves, one can only derive a single physical constraint, namely the Einstein radius crossing time, which involves the lens mass, various distance measures and relative velocity (see §4). This degeneracy means that the lens properties cannot be uniquely inferred. Therefore any further information on the lens configuration is of great importance. Microlensing events that exhibit paral-lax effects provide this type of information. Such events were predicted by Refsdal (1966) and Gould (1992). The first case was reported by the MACHO collaboration toward the Galactic bulge (Alcock et al. 1995), and the second case (toward Carina) was discovered by the OGLE collaboration and reported in Mao (1999). In this paper, we report a new parallax microlensing event, OGLE-2000-BUL-43. This bulge event was caught well ahead of the peak by the Early Warning System (Udalski et al. 1994), and attracted attention due to its extreme brightness and a very long time …