'Auxiliary' Science with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey
Abstract
The WFIRST Microlensing Survey will enable the measurement of the compact object mass function over ten orders of magnitude, the detection of 100,000 Transiting Planets, astroseismology of 1,000,000 bulge giants, the detection of 5000 trans-Neptunian objects, and measurement of parallaxes and proper motions of 6,000,000 bulge and disk stars.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1903.08986
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.08986
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c.211G
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to the Astro2020 Science White Paper call. This white paper draws heavily from Chapter 2.5 of Spergel et al. 2015 (arXiv:1503.03757), which was written by the lead author of this white paper