ASTROPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS OF GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING

By X. LILAO

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER PLANETARY DETECTION E?CIENCY OF THE MAGNI?CATION MICROLENSING EVENT OGLE-2004-BLG-343 HIGH-MAGNI?CATION EVENTS & EARTH-MASS PLANETS PLANET DETECTION E?CIENCIES: PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS ”SEEING” THE LENS IN HIGH-MAGNI?CATION EVENTS OBSERVATIONAL DATA EVENT MODELING POINT-SOURCE POINT-LENS MODEL SOURCE PROPERTIES FROM COLOR-MAGNITUDE DIAGRAM FINITE-SOURCE E?ECTS MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION DETECTING PLANETS DETECTION E?CIENCY CONSTRAINTS ON PLANETS NO PLANET DETECTED FAKE DATA DETECTION E?CIENCY IN PHYSICAL PARAMETER SPACE LUMINOUS LENS? SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION MICROLENSING EVENT MOA-2007-BLG-400: EXHUMING THE BURIED SIGNATURE OF A COOL, JOVIAN-MASS PLANET OBSERVATIONS MICROLENS MODEL HYBRID PIXEL/RAY MAP ALGORITHM THE (W, Q) GRID OF LENS GEOMETRIES BEST-FIT MODEL LIMB DARKENING BLENDED LIGHT DISCUSSION OGLE-2005-BLG-071LB, THE MOST MASSIVE M-DWARF PLANETARY COMPANION? OVERVIEW OF DATA AND TYPES OF CONSTRAINTS CONSTRAINING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE LENS AND ITS PLANETARY COMPANION MICROLENS PARALLAX E?ECTS FITTING PLANETARY ORBITAL MOTION FINITE-SOURCE E?ECTS AND OTHER CONSTRAINTS ON ?E HST ASTROMETRY “SEEING” THE BLEND WITH HST FINAL PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE LENS AND PLANET CONSTRAINTS ON A NON-LUMINOUS LENS XALLARAP E?ECTS AND BINARY SOURCE SUMMARY AND FUTURE PROSPECTS ERROR RESCALING SPITZER DATA REDUCTION AND ERROR DETERMINATION COMPLICATIONS ALTER STRATEGY AND ANALYSIS NEED FOR ADDITIONAL SPITZER OBSERVATION EIGHT-FOLD WAY BINARY ORBITAL MOTION STATIC BINARY LENS PARAMETERS BINARY ORBITAL PARAMETERS SUMMARY OF PARAMETERS SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS CONVERGENCE SOLUTION TRIAGE WIDE-BINARY SOLUTIONS CLOSE-BINARY SOLUTIONS LENS LOCATION HALO LENSES SMC LENSES SMC STRUCTURE LIKELIHOOD RATIOS KEPLER CONSTRAINTS FOR CLOSE BINARIES KEPLER CONSTRAINTS FOR WIDE BINARIES CONSTRAINTS FROM (LACK OF) FINITE-SOURCE E?ECTS PROBING ?100AU INTERGALACTIC MG IIABSORBING “CLOUDLETS” WITH QUASAR MICROLENSING VARYING MICROLENSED QUASAR IMAGE AS A “RULER” BASIC GEOMETRIC CON?GURATIONS AND MOTIONS BULK MOTION OF THE UN-MICROLENSED “RAY BUNDLES” DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION