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    Detecting Exoplanets via Binary-Source Microlensing Events with Spitzer and WFIST

    , Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology Bagheri, Fatemeh (Author) ; Rahvar, Sohrab (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    We investigate the possibility of exoplanet detection orbiting source stars in microlensing events through the Spitzer and WFIRST follow-up observations.We perform a Monto Carlo simulation on the detection rate of exoplanets via microlensing, assuming that each source star has at least one exoplanet. The exoplanet can reflect part of the light from the parent star or emit internal thermal radiation. In this new detection channel, we use microlensing as an amplifier to magnify the reflection light from the planet.In the literature, this mode of detecting exoplanets has been investigated much less than the usual mode in which the exoplanets are considered as one companion in binary lens...