Gravitational microlensing source limb-darkening and limb-polarization,~I: angle-averaged amplification functions
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
There is increasing interest in extended source effects in microlensing events, as probes of the unresolved sources. Previous work has either presumed a uniform source, or else required an approximate or numerical treatment of the amplification function averaged over the source disk. In this paper, I present analytic expressions for the angle-averaged amplification functions for the rotationally-symmetric intensity and polarization cases. These integrals will allow us to use the technology of inverse problems to study the source limb-darkening and limb-polarization functions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0001359,
title = {Gravitational microlensing source limb-darkening and limb-polarization,~I: angle-averaged amplification functions},
author = {Norman Gray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0001359},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted