Measuring Limb Darkening of Distant Stars Using Microlensing Events by Finite Element Method, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology ; Rahvar, Sohrab (Supervisor)
Abstract
The finite-size effect in gravitational microlensing provides a possibility to measure the variation of surface brightness of stars from centre to limb which is called limb darkening profile. Measuring limb darkening profile provides information about star atmosphere. It is also useful in other fields of astrophysics. In this thesis we develop a numerical method to recover limb darkening of source stars from single lens microlensing light curves with finite source effect in which the lens transits the source disk. We use the Finite Element Method (FEM) as an inversion tool for discretization and inversion of the finite source effect integral equation. This method makes no explicit assumption...
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Abstract
The finite-size effect in gravitational microlensing provides a possibility to measure the variation of surface brightness of stars from centre to limb which is called limb darkening profile. Measuring limb darkening profile provides information about star atmosphere. It is also useful in other fields of astrophysics. In this thesis we develop a numerical method to recover limb darkening of source stars from single lens microlensing light curves with finite source effect in which the lens transits the source disk. We use the Finite Element Method (FEM) as an inversion tool for discretization and inversion of the finite source effect integral equation. This method makes no explicit assumption...
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