Uncovering stellar atmospheres with gravitational microlensing telescopes

Abstract

A strong differential magnification over the face of the source star passing the caustic created by a binary lens star allows to measure its radial intensity profile with an angular resolution of 20-60 nas from broad-band photometric observations for ~15 stars per year and to study its chemical composition from time-resolved high-resolution spectroscopy for ~2 stars per year.

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