Removing the Microlensing Blending-Parallax Degeneracy Using Source Variability

Assef, R. J.; Gould, A.; Afonso, C.; Albert, J. N.; Andersen, J.; Ansari, R.; Aubourg, E.; Bareyre, P.; Beaulieu, J.-P.; Charlot, X.; Tisserand, Patrick

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Removing the Microlensing Blending-Parallax Degeneracy Using Source Variability

Date

2006

Authors

Assef, R. J.

Gould, A.

Afonso, C.

Albert, J. N.

Andersen, J.

Ansari, R.

Aubourg, E.

Bareyre, P.

Beaulieu, J.-P.

Charlot, X.

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

Microlensing event MACHO 97-SMC-1 is one of the rare microlensing events for which the source is a variable star, simply because most variable stars are systematically eliminated from microlensing studies. Using observational data for this event, we show