Predicting Microlensing Rates and Properties in Wide-Field Surveys
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Physics
- Degree Supervisor:
- Rachel Street and Lars Bidsten
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2015
- Issued Date:
- 2015
- Topics:
- Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics, Astrophysics
- Keywords:
- Simulation,
Microlensing - Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- Ph.D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
- Description:
The rates and properties of out-of-plane microlensing events have been understudied in the past. We seek to remedy this by building a simulation of galactic stars and lensing events, drawing upon numerous up-to-date sources. The resulting code is a well-verified software tool which can be adapted to simulate a wide range of potential survey strategies and parameters. It will be a useful tool for the community to optimize the design of the deep, wide-angle surveys coming on line in the next decades, such as ATLAS, Evryscope, and LSST. In the text, we provide baseline all-sky lensing properties for a deep survey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3689913
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f3c24tmd
- ISBN:
- 9781321696035
- Catalog System Number:
- 990045119370203776
- Copyright:
- Amanda Fournier, 2015
- Rights:
- In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Amanda Fournier
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