2 papers
astro-ph2005
Fitting Photometry of Blended Microlensing Events
Christian L. Thomas, Kim Griest
We reexamine the usefulness of fitting blended lightcurve models to microlensing photometric data. We find agreement with previous workers (e.g. Wozniak & Paczynski) that this is a…
astro-ph2004
Contamination in the MACHO dataset and the puzzle of LMC Microlensing
Kim Griest, Christian L. Thomas
In a recent series of three papers, Belokurov, Evans, and Le Du, and Evans and Belokurov, reanalysed the MACHO collaboration data and gave alternative sets of microlensing events a…