‘Auxiliary’ Science with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey
by B. Scott Gaudi, Rachel Akeson, Jay Anderson, Etienne Bachelet, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Valerio Bozza, Sebastiano Calchi Novati, Calen B. Henderson, Samson A. Johnson, Jeffrey Kruk, Jessica R. Lu, Shude Mao, Benjamin T. Montet, David M. Nataf, Matthew T. Penny, Radoslaw Poleski, Clément Ranc, Kailash Sahu, Yossi Shvartzvald, David N. Spergel, Daisuke Suzuki, Keivan G. Stassun, and Rachel A. Street
Published onMay 31, 2019
‘Auxiliary’ Science with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey
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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.
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