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A visual guide to planetary microlensing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2011

Leslie A. Rogers  and
Paul L. Schechter
Leslie A. Rogers
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA email: larogers@mit.edu, schech@achernar.mit.edu
Paul L. Schechter
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA email: larogers@mit.edu, schech@achernar.mit.edu
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Abstract

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The microlensing technique has found 10 exoplanets to date and promises to discover more in the near future. While planetary transit light curves all show a familiar shape, planetary perturbations to microlensing light curves can manifest a wide variety of morphologies. We present a graphical guide that may be useful when understanding microlensing events showing planetary caustic perturbations.

Keywords

gravitational lensingplanetary systems

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