Gravitational Microlensing: Past, Present and Future
| dc.creator | Mao, Shude | |
| dc.date | 1999-09-17 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:33:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:33:19Z | |
| dc.description | Ongoing microlensing surveys have already yielded more than five hundred microlensing events, most of which have been identified in real-time. In this review I present the basic theory and observational status of these surveys. I highlight the discoveries made so far - these include constraints on the dark matter content of the Galaxy, the structure and mass function of stars in the Galactic bulge and applications on stellar atmospheres and populations. I also briefly discuss the scientific returns (such as planet detection) from real-time photometric and spectroscopic follow-up surveys. With improved software algorithms and more powerful instrumentations, the number of microlensing events will be greatly increased in the future; the Space Interferometry Mission, on the other hand, provides the possibility to break the lens mass and distance degeneracy. I conclude that microlensing is developing into an exciting technique with diverse applications. | |
| dc.description | Invited review for "Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals", Boston University, July 1999, ed. T.G. Brainerd and C.S. Kochanek | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909302 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909302 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/14798 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Gravitational Microlensing: Past, Present and Future | |
| dc.type | text |