Rigorous "Rich Argument" in Microlensing Parallax
Abstract
I show that when the observables are well measured up to a discrete degeneracy in the microlensing parallax vector , the relative likelihood of the different solutions can be written in closed form , where is the number of stars (potential lenses) having the mass and kinematics of the inferred parameters of solution and is an additional factor that is formally derived from the Jacobian of the transformation from Galactic to microlensing parameters. The Jacobian term constitutes an explicit evaluation of the ``Rich Argument'', i.e., that there is an extra geometric factor disfavoring large-parallax solutions in addition to the reduced frequency of lenses given by . Here is the Einstein timescale, is the angular Einstein radius, and are the (parallax, proper motion) of the microlensed source. I also discuss how this analytic expression degrades in the presence of finite errors in the measured observables.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2002.00947,
title = {Rigorous "Rich Argument" in Microlensing Parallax},
author = {Andrew Gould},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00947},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
4 pages, submitted to JKAS