OGLE-2016-BLG-0263Lb: Microlensing Detection of a Very Low-mass Binary Companion through a Repeating Event Channel
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INTRODUCTION
- In a time-lapse experiment, changes in the medium often occur only locally, for example in a reservoir.
- A limitation of the method is that multiple scattering between the changed domain and the embedding medium is not taken into account.
- In all methods discussed above, the time-lapse fields are derived inside the changed domain.
- In the first step, which is analogous to the method proposed by Elison et al. (2016), the authors use the Marchenko method to surgically remove the response of the reservoir from the baseline survey.
- Both steps fully account for multiple scattering.
A SIMPLE TIME-LAPSE EXPERIMENT
- Before introducing the proposed methods, the authors discuss a simple time-lapse experiment.
- Figure 2(a) shows the plane-wave reflection response at S0 (which is a transparent surface), using a Ricker wavelet with a central frequency of 50 Hz.
- The reflections from the top and bottom of the reservoir are indicated.
- The plane-wave reflection response after this change, designated as the monitor survey, is shown Figure 2(b).
- In the following, the theory will be discussed for the 3D situation, but the method will be applied to the 1D example of Figures 1 and 2.
REPRESENTATION OF THE REFLECTION RESPONSE
- The starting point for the derivation of a suited representation of the reflection response is formed by flux-normalised oneway reciprocity theorems for down- and upgoing wave fields (Wapenaar and Grimbergen, 1996).
- The grey areas indicate arbitrary inhomogeneous units, whereas the white areas represent the homogenous embedding.
- The reflection and transmission responses are indicated by capital subscripts A, B and C.
- When there are more units below unit c, equation 1 is trivially extended with additional terms on the right-hand side.
- Note that equation 1 is akin to the generalised primary representation (Wapenaar, 1996), in which the sum on the right-hand side is replaced by an integral along the depth coordinate, and the reflection responses under the integrals are replaced by local reflection operators.
REMOVING THE RESERVOIR FROM THE BASELINE SURVEY
- For the 1D example, the resolved response R∪A is shown in the time domain in Figure 5(b).
- For display purposes it has been shifted in time, so that the travel times correspond with those in Figure 5(a).
TRANSPLANTING A RESERVOIR INTO THE MONITOR SURVEY
- Given a model of the reservoir in the monitor state, its reflection and transmission responses, R̄∪b and T̄b respectively, can be obtained by numerical modelling, see the right frame in Figure 6.
- For display it has been shifted in time, so that the travel time to the top of the reservoir corresponds with that in Figure 5(a).
- Applying again the one-way reciprocity theorems to appropriate combinations of the media in Figure 3, the authors obtain the relations that are needed to resolve these quantities.
CONCLUSIONS
- The authors have proposed a two-step process to predict a time-lapse monitor survey from the baseline survey and a model of the reservoir in the monitor state.
- In the first step, the response of the original reservoir is surgically removed from the baseline survey, using the Marchenko method.
- The method fully accounts for multiple scattering.
- It can be employed to predict the monitor state for a range of time-lapse scenarios.
- Finally, when parts of the overburden change as well during a time-lapse experiment, these can be transplanted in a similar way as the reservoir, but this will have a limiting effect on the efficiency gain.
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Q2. What are the future works in "Ogle-2016-blg-0263lb: microlensing detection of a very low-mass binary companion through a repeating event channel" ?
The repeating-event channel is also important in future space-based microlensing surveys, such as WFIRST, from which many free-floating planet candidates are expected to be detected.
Q3. How many planets are detected by high-cadence surveys?
Under the assumption of power-law distributions of host-planet separations, Han (2007) estimated that planets detectable by high-cadence surveys through the repeating channel will comprise ∼3%–4% of all planets.
Q4. Why do space-based lensing observations not observe the bulge field continuously?
Due to the time-window limit set by the orbits of satellites, space-based lensing observations will not observe the bulge field continuously.
Q5. What is the scientific significance of the repeating-event channel?
The scientific importance of the repeating-event channel is that the range of planets and brown dwarfs (BDs) detectable by microlensing is expanded.
Q6. What is the advantage of high-cadence surveys?
Another important advantage of high-cadence surveys is that they open an additional channel of detecting very low-mass companions.
Q7. How do the authors model the light curve of a BS event?
Since the light curve of a BS event varies smoothly with the changes of the lensing parameters, the authors search for the best-fit parameters by 2c minimization using a downhill approach.
Q8. What is the q–s parameter for the repeating-event channel?
The repeating-event channel is also important in future space-based microlensing surveys, such as WFIRST, from which many free-floating planet candidates are expected to be detected.
Q9. What are the two dotted circles around the individual caustics?
The two dotted circles around the individual caustics represent the Einstein rings corresponding to the masses of the individual BL components with radii r q1 11 1 2= +[ ( )] and r q q12 1 2= +[ ( )] .
Q10. Why do the authors characterize the source star for the sake of completeness?
Although one cannot determine Eq for OGLE-2016-BLG-0263 because the source did not cross caustics and thus the light curve is not affected by finite-source effects, the authors characterize the source star for the sake of completeness.
Q11. What is the normalization factor used to make the 2c per degree of freedom?
Following the usual procedure described in Yee et al. (2012), the authors normalize the error bars byk , 10 2 min 2 1 2s s s= +( ) ( )where 0s is the error bar estimated from the photometry pipeline, mins is a term used to adjust error bars for consistency with the scatter of the data set, and k is a normalization factor used to make the 2c per degree of freedom unity.
Q12. What is the first case of a BS event?
The first case is a binary-source (BS) event in which the double peaks are produced when the lens passes close to both components of the source separately, one after another (Griest & Hu 1992; Sazhin & Cherepashchuk 1994; Han & Gould 1997).
Q13. What is the effect of the lens binarity on the light curve of a BL?
Unlike the case of a BS event, the light curve of a BL event cannot be described by the superposition of the two light curves involved with the individual lens components because the lens binarity induces a region of discontinuous lensing magnifications, i.e., caustics.
Q14. What is the basic description of the light curve of a BS event?
For the basic description of the light curve of a BS event, therefore, one needs six lensing parameters, including t0,1, t0,2, u0,1, u0,2, tE, and qF (Hwang et al. 2013).