Issue |
A&A
Volume 439, Number 2, August IV 2005
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Page(s) | 645 - 650 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052858 | |
Published online | 29 July 2005 |
Determination of stellar shape in microlensing event MOA 2002-BLG-33
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Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, UK e-mail: njr@jb.man.ac.uk
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Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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Department of Physics, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
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Department of Physics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Apartado 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain
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Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA 94563, USA
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Hubble Fellow, Caltech Astronomy, MS 105-24, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Bl., Pasadena, California
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CEA, DSM, DAPNIA, Centre d'Études de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Universität Hamburg, Sternwarte, Gojenbergsweg 112, 21029 Hamburg, Germany
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
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Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Lineaire, IN2P3 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
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School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
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Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA
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Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210, USA
Received:
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February
2005
Accepted:
2
May
2005
We report a measurement of the shape of the source star in microlensing event MOA 2002-BLG-33. The lens for this event was a close binary whose centre-of-mass passed almost directly in front of the source star. At
this time, the source star was closely bounded on all sides by a caustic of the lens. This allowed the oblateness of the source star to be constrained. We found that where a and b are its semi-major and semi-minor axes respectively. The angular resolution of this measurement is approximately 0.04
. We also report HST images of the event that confirm a previous identification of the source star as an F8-G2 turn-off main-sequence star.
Key words: gravitational lensing / stars: atmospheres / stars: rotation
© ESO, 2005
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