2001/08/31 by Andrew Gould, J. An, Jin H. An · 3 citations
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/337923
published as Astrophys.J. 565 (2002) 1381-1385 · title changed, accepted version (including one figure), to appear in the Astrophysical Journal (Feb, 2002)
arxiv created 2001/11/13 · openalex publication_date 2002/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Blended light is an important source of degeneracy in the characterization of microlensing events, particularly in binary-lens and high-magnification events. We show how the techniques of image subtraction can be applied to form an image of the blend with the source removed. In many cases, it should be possible to construct images with a very high signal-to-noise ratio. Analysis of these images can help distinguish between competing models that have different blend fractions, and in some cases should allow direct detection of the lens.