Reevaluating of the feasibility of ground-based earth-mass microlensing planet detections
arXiv:1403.1032 · doi:10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/85
Abstract
One important strength of the microlensing method in detecting extrasolar planets is its high sensitivity to low-mass planets. However, it is often believed that microlensing detections of Earth-mass planets from ground-based observation would be difficult due to the limit set by finite-source effects. This view comes from the previous estimation of the planet detection probability based on the fractional deviation of planetary signals, but proper probability estimation requires to additionally consider the source brightness, which is directly related to the photometric precision. In this paper, we reevaluate the feasibility of low-mass planet detections considering photometric precision for different populations of source stars. From this, it is found that contribution of the improved photometric precision to the planetary signal of a giant-source event is big enough to compensate the decrease of the magnification excess caused by finite-source effects. As a result, we find that giant-source events are suitable targets for Earth-mass planet detections with significantly higher detection probability than events involved with source stars of smaller radii and predict that Earth-mass planets would be detected by prospective high-cadence surveys.
arXiv comment4 pages, 3 figures, ApJ accepted
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