The SuperMACHO microlensing survey

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Becker, Andrew C. [1 ]
Rest, A. [1 ]
Stubbs, C. [1 ]
Miknaitis, G. A. [1 ]
Miceli, A. [1 ]
Covarrubias, R. [1 ]
Hawley, S. L. [1 ]
Aguilera, C. [1 ]
Smith, R. C. [1 ]
Suntzeff, N. B. [1 ]
Olsen, K. [1 ]
Prieto, J. L. [1 ]
Hiriart, R. [1 ]
Garg, A. [1 ]
Welch, D. L. [1 ]
Cook, K. H. [1 ]
Nikolaev, S. [1 ]
Clocchiatti, A. [1 ]
Minniti, D. [1 ]
Keller, S. C. [1 ]
Schmidt, B. P. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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IMPACT OF GRAVITIONAL LENSING ON COSMOLOGY | 2005年 / 225卷
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10.1017/S1743921305002164
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
We present the first results from our next-generation microlensing survey, the SuperMACHO project. We are using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and the MOSAIC imager to carry out a search for microlensing toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We plan to ascertain the nature of the population responsible for the excess microlensing rate seen by the MACHO project. Our observing strategy is optimized to measure the differential microlensing rate across the face of the LMC. We find this derivative to be relatively insensitive to the details of the LMC's internal structure but a strong discriminant between Galactic halo and LMC self lensing. In December 2003 we completed our third year of survey operations. 2003 also marked the first year of real-time microlensing alerts and photometric and spectroscopic followup. We have extracted several dozen microlensing candidates, and we present some preliminary light curves and related information. Similar to the MACHO project, we find SNe behind the LMC to be a significant contaminant - this background has not been completely removed from our current single-color candidate sample. Our follow-up strategy is optimized to discriminate between SNe and true microlensing.
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