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Caption: Figure 3.
Source and lens trajectories for linear (top) and accelerated (bottom) approximations of orbital motion in binary sources. We present the unlensed sources (solid lines) and the lensed images (dashed + dotted lines). For each source, there is a major and a minor image. The minor image is seen around the lens, and the major image is seen around the source. The green line is the flux-weighted average of lensed source positions, as observed on the sky. Note that magS,pri = 16 and magS,sec = 17. In both panels, the primary’s proper source motion μS,⊙ is [6 mas yr−1, 3 mas yr−1]; the secondary’s proper source motion relative to the primary source ﹩{{\boldsymbol{\mu }}}_{{S}_{s},\odot }﹩ is [9 mas yr−1, 7 mas yr−1]. The acceleration of the secondary source aSrel,⊙ is [0.5 mas yr−2, −2 mas yr−2] in the lower panel. In both cases, the Einstein time tE,⊙ = 269 days, the Einstein radius is 4.9 mas, and u0,⊙ =1.01. The lens mass is 10M⊙, and it is held stationary.
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