A New Method to Detect Exoplanets in Faint Microlensing Events

FAINT DETECTION OF EXOPLANETS IN MICROLENSING SURVEYS

Authors:

Brown et al

Abstract:

We propose a new approach to discovering faint microlensing signals below traditional thresholds, and for estimating the binary-lens mass ratio and the apparent separation from such signals. The events found will be helpful in accurately estimating the true distribution of planetary semimajor axes, which is an important goal of space microlensing surveys.