Modeling microlensing events with MulensModel
Abstract
We introduce MulensModel, a software package for gravitational microlensing modeling. The package provides a framework for calculating microlensing model magnification curves and goodness-of-fit statistics for microlensing events with single and binary lenses as well as a variety of higher-order effects: extended sources with limb-darkening, annual microlensing parallax, satellite microlensing parallax, and binary lens orbital motion. The software could also be used for analysis of the planned microlensing survey by the NASA flag-ship WFIRST satellite. MulensModel is available at https://github.com/rpoleski/MulensModel/.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Computing
- Pub Date:
- January 2019
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1803.01003
- Bibcode:
- 2019A&C....26...35P
- Keywords:
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- Gravitational microlensing [Exoplanets];
- Gravitational microlensing;
- Space telescopes;
- Astroinformatics;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Astronomy and Computing 2019, Volume 26, p. 35-49