Perturbation effect of stellar spots on light curves of gravitational microlensing

  • S Sajadian
  • M Rashidi
Publication date
August 2021
Publisher
Academic World Research
Journal
Iranian Journal of Physics Research

Abstract

One of the advantages of observations of gravitational microlensing is stellar spots detection.  Our aim ‎in this paper is to study and characterize the perturbations due to stellar spots on the microlensing ‎light curves. Considering a suitable formalism for the stellar spots, we simulate the microlensing of ‎spotted source stars. One of the effects of a spot on stellar light curve is the local demagnification (where ‎the lens is crossing the stellar spot) and it causes asymmetric perturbations on the light curve. The ‎spots that locate at the source center after projection make larger and deeper perturbations than the ‎spots locate the stellar limbs. In caustic crossing binary microlensing events, the typical-size spot-‎induced perturbati...

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