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Microlensing of Circumstellar Disks

  • Authors: Zheng Zheng and Brice Ménard

Zheng & Ménard 2005 The Astrophysical Journal 635 599.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 2.

Geometry of lensing of a circumstellar disk. The dotted ring around the lens indicates the Einstein ring. The circumstellar disk is assumed to have an hole inside an inner radius and a cutoff outside an outer radius. Projected onto the sky plane, the disk appears to be an ellipse with the orientation angle of the major axis being φ0. Any point on the disk is specified by its coordinates (r, φ) in a polar system centered at the star. The angles φ0 and φ are with respect to the direction of the relative motion ﹩\boldsymbol{v}﹩. The position of the star (or the disk center) is specified by (R, Φ) with respect to the lens (Φ is relative to the direction of ﹩\boldsymbol{v}﹩). The impact parameter of the star is denoted as u0.

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