Detecting Extra-Solar Planets via Microlensing at High Magnification
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Extra-solar planets can be efficiently detected in gravitational microlensing events of high magnification. High accuracy photometry is required over a short, well-defined time interval only, of order 10-30 hours. Most planets orbiting the lens star are evidenced by perturbations of the microlensing light curve in this time.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209138,
title = {Detecting Extra-Solar Planets via Microlensing at High Magnification},
author = {Nicholas J. Rattenbury and Ian A. Bond and Jovan Skuljan and Phil Yock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209138},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures. Presented at the Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extra-Solar Planets conference, Washginton D.C., June 2002