Estimating Finite Source Effects in Microlensing Events due to Free-Floating Planets with the Euclid Survey

Estimating Finite Source Effects in Microlensing Events due to Free-Floating Planets with the Euclid Survey

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In recent years free-floating planets (FFPs) have drawn a Best Hood-be-ge-65-wh copyright 65 cm Island Cooker Hood White great interest among astrophysicists.Gravitational microlensing is a unique and exclusive method for their investigation which may allow obtaining precious information about their mass and spatial distribution.The planned Euclid space-based observatory will be able to detect a substantial number of microlensing events caused by FFPs towards the Galactic bulge.Making use of a synthetic population algorithm, we investigate the possibility of detecting finite source effects in simulated microlensing events due to FFPs.We find a significant efficiency for finite SPEARMINT source effect detection that turns out to be between 20% and 40% for a FFP power law mass function index in the range [0.

9, 1.6].For many of such events it will also be possible to measure the angular Einstein radius and therefore constrain the lens physical parameters.These kinds of observations will also offer a unique possibility to investigate the photosphere and atmosphere of Galactic bulge stars.