Simulations of triple microlensing events I: detectability of a scaled Sun–Jupiter–Saturn system
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society(2022)
摘要
Up to date, only 13 firmly established triple microlensing events have been discovered, so the occurrence rates of microlensing two-planet systems and planets in binary systems are still uncertain. With the upcoming space-based microlensing surveys, hundreds of triple microlensing events will be detected. To provide clues for future observations and statistical analyses, we initiate a project to investigate the detectability of triple-lens systems with different configurations and observational set-ups. As the first step, in this work we develop the simulation software and investigate the detectability of a scaled Sun–Jupiter–Saturn system with the recently proposed telescope for microlensing observations on the ‘Earth 2.0 (ET)’ satellite. With the same Δχ
2
thresholds of detecting a single planet and two planets, we find that the detectability of the scaled Sun-Jupiter-Saturn analogue is about 1 per cent and the presence of the Jovian planet suppresses the detectability of the Saturn-like planet by ∼13 per cent regardless of the adopted detection Δχ
2
threshold. This suppression probability could be at the same level as the Poisson noise of future space-based statistical samples of triple-lenses, so it is inappropriate to treat each planet separately during detection efficiency calculations.
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gravitational lensing: micro,planets and satellites: detection
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