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Here we consider the influence of the microlensing on the spectrum of a lensed object taking into account that composite emission is coming from different regions arranged subsequently around the central source. We assumed that the lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Sasa Z. Simic , Luka C. Popovic , Predrag Jovanovic

We systematically examine light curves from a single hot spot on a slowly rotating neutron star with very high compactness, where the so-called invisible zone does not exist. In particular, we adopt three different shapes of hot spot and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Hajime Sotani

In this paper, we investigate the color changes of gravitational microlensing events caused by the two different mechanisms of differential amplification for a limb-darkened extended source and blending. From this investigation, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han , Seong-Hong Park , Jang-Hae Jeong

Recent discussion of the effects of finite source size on high magnification microlensing events due to MACHOs motivates a study into the feasibility of observing such effects and extracting the source radius. Simulated observations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Peng

Currently, 6 candidate binary lens events have been reported, while only a single candidate binary source event has been reported. To account for the rarity of binary source events, Dominik pointed out that for a typical binary source event…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Cheongho Han , Youngjin Jeong

Here, we study the microlensing of radially pulsating stars. Discerning and characterizing the properties of distant, faint pulsating stars is achievable through high-cadence microlensing observations. Combining stellar variability period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sedighe Sajadian , Richard Ignace

When there is more than one source of light along the line of sight to a gravitationally lensed object, the characteristics of the observed light curve are influenced by the presence of the light that is not lensed. In this paper we develop…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. DiStefano , A. A. Esin

I use two-dimensional axisymmetric numerical simulations of star-disk magnetospheric interaction to construct a three-dimensional model of hot spots on the star created by infalling accretion columns. The intensity of emitted radiation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Miljenko Čemeljić

We analyse the effects on the predictions for the microlensing searches toward the Galactic bulge coming from the fact that not all the stars monitored belong to the bulge itself, but that a non--negligible fraction of them actually are in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Mollerach , E. Roulet

The light received by source stars in microlensing events may be significantly polarized if both an efficient photon scattering mechanism is active in the source stellar atmosphere and a differential magnification is therein induced by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Ingrosso , F. De Paolis , A. A. Nucita , F. Strafella , S. Calchi Novati , Ph. Jetzer , G. Liuzzi , A. Zakharov

We study the microlensing of Non-Radially Pulsating (NRP) stars. Pulsations are formulated for stellar radius and temperature using spherical harmonic functions with different values of l,m. The characteristics of the microlensing light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Sedighe Sajadian , Richard Ignace

We study the wave optics features of gravitational microlensing by a binary lens composed of a planet and a parent star. In this system, the source star near the caustic line produces a pair of images in which they can play the role of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ahmad Mehrabi , Sohrab Rahvar

The gravitational microlensing as a unique astrophysical tool can be used for studying the atmosphere of stars thousands of parsec far from us. This capability results from the bending of light rays in the gravitational field of a lens…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Sedighe Sajadian , Sohrab Rahvar

A new window to observing individual stars and other small sources at cosmological distances was opened recently, with the detection of several caustic-crossing events in galaxy cluster fields. Many more such events are expected soon from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-15 Ashish Kumar Meena , Ofir Arad , Adi Zitrin

We investigate high-magnification events caused by planets in wide binary stellar systems under the strong finite-source effect, where the planet orbits one of the companions. From this, we find that the pattern of central perturbations in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sun-Ju Chung , Byeong-Gon Park

We investigate the effect of blending in future gravitational microlensing surveys by carrying out simulation of Galactic bulge microlensing events to be detected from a proposed space-based lensing survey. From this simulation, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Cheongho Han , Byeong-Gon Park , Ho-Il Kim , Kyongae Chang

Extended source effects can be seen in gravitational lensing events when sources cross critical lines. Those events probe the stellar intensity profile and could be used to measure limb darkening coefficients to test stellar model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Hans J. Witt , F. Atrio-Barandela

Recently, Heyrovsk\'y & Sasselov (1999) investigated the sensitivity of {\it single-lens} gravitational microlensing event light curves to small spots and found that during source transit events spots can cause deviations in amplification…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han , Ho-Il Kim , Kyungae Chang , Seong-Hong Park

Source blending in microlensing experiments is known to modify the Einstein time of the observed events. In this paper, we have conducted Monte-Carlo calculations, using the analytical relationships derived by Han (1999) to quantify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yann Alibert , Gilles Chabrier , Gerard Massacrier