Microlensing and the Physics of Stellar Atmospheres
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The simple physics of microlensing provides a well-understood tool with which to probe the atmospheres of distant stars in the Galaxy and Local Group with high magnification and resolution. Recent results in measuring stellar surface structure through broad band photometry and spectroscopy of high amplification microlensing events are reviewed, with emphasis on the dramatic expectations for future contributions of microlensing to the field of stellar atmospheres.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0004237,
title = {Microlensing and the Physics of Stellar Atmospheres},
author = {Penny D. Sackett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0004237},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages including 6 figures. To appear in ``Microlensing 2000: A New Era of Microlensing Astrophysics,'' an ASP conference proceedings, eds. J.W. Menzies and P.D. Sackett