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The Contribution Of Binaries To The Observed Galactic Microlensing Events
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
Most of the detected galactic microlensing events are commonly explained as due to microlensing of a pointlike source by a pointlike lens. We have found statistical methods to determine the goodness-of-fit for a specific model of source and lens beyond the assumption that the errors are normal, which does not always hold. In particular, we argue that at least one weak binary lensing event has already been detected (MACHO LMC#1) and thereby confirm our former hypothesis (Dominik & Hirshfeld 1994). We also find that this fit is not unique. We emphasize that knowledge of the fraction of binaries among the observed microlensing events is crucial for estimating the mass distribution of the observed dark objects.
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- Chapter 7: Microlensing In the Galaxy
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