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The Polarisation Signatures of Microlensing

Astrophysics 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

It has already been shown that microlensing can give rise to a non-zero variable polarisation signal. Here we use realistic simulations to demonstrate the additional information that can be gained from polarimetric observations of lensing events.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9807184,
  title  = {The Polarisation Signatures of Microlensing},
  author = {A. M. Newsam and J. F. L. Simmons and M. A. Hendry and I. J. Coleman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9807184},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures from 6 postscript files. Uses elsart.sty, graphicx.sty and harvard.sty. To appear in New Astronomy Reviews - proceedings of the Oxford Workshop `Gravitational Lensing: Nature's Own Weighing Scales'