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Extracting Microlensing Signals from K2 Campaign 9

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2017-08-22 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

The reduction of the \emph{K2}'s Campaign 9 (K2C9) microlensing data is challenging mostly because of the very crowded field and the unstable pointing of the spacecraft. In this work, we present the first method that can extract microlensing signals from this K2C9 data product. The raw light curves and the astrometric solutions are first derived, using the techniques from Soares-Furtado et al. and Huang et al. for \emph{K2} dense field photometry. We then minimize and remove the systematic effect by performing simultaneous modeling with the microlensing signal. We also derive precise (KpI)(K_p-I) vs. (VI)(V-I) color-color relations that can predict the microlensing source flux in the \emph{Kepler} bandpass. By implementing the color-color relation in the light curve modeling, we show that the microlensing parameters can be better constrained. In the end, we use two example microlensing events, OGLE-2016-BLG-0980 and OGLE-2016-BLG-0940, to test our method.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08692,
  title  = {Extracting Microlensing Signals from K2 Campaign 9},
  author = {Wei Zhu and Chelsea Huang and A. Udalski and M. Soares-Furtado and R. Poleski and J. Skowron and P. Mróz and M. K. Szymański and I. Soszyński and P. Pietrukowicz and S. Kozlowski and K. Ulaczyk and M. Pawlak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08692},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 8 figures and 2 tables; published on PASP

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