The Robotic Observations of Microlensing Events/Reactive Event Assessment Survey was a Key Project at Las Cumbres Observatory (hereafter LCO) which continuously monitored 20 selected fields (3.76 sq.deg) in the Galactic Bulge throughout their seasonal visibility window over a three-year period, between 2017 March and 2020 March. Observations were made in three optical passbands (SDSS−𝑔′, −𝑟′, −𝑖′), and LCO's multi-site telescope network enabled the survey to achieve a typical cadence of ∼10 hr in 𝑖′ and ∼15 hr in 𝑔′ and 𝑟′. In addition, intervals of higher cadence (<1 hr) data were obtained during monitoring of key microlensing events within the fields. This paper describes the Difference Image Analysis data reduction pipeline developed to process these data, and the process for combining the photometry from LCO's three observing sites in the Southern Hemisphere. The full timeseries photometry for all ∼8 million stars, down to a limiting magnitude of i ∼ 18 mag is provided in the data release accompanying this paper, and samples of the data are presented for exemplar microlensing events, illustrating how the tri-band data are used to derive constraints on the microlensing source star parameters, a necessary step in determining the physical properties of the lensing object. The timeseries data also enables a wealth of additional science, for example in characterizing long-timescale stellar variability, and a few examples of the data for known variables are presented.
ROME/REA: Three-year, Tri-color Timeseries Photometry of the Galactic Bulge
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Acknowledgement
This work makes use of observations from the Las Cumbres Observatory global telescope network. R.A.S. and E.B. gratefully acknowledge support from NASA grant 80NSSC19K0291. Y.T. acknowledges the support of DFG priority program SPP 1992 "Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets" (TS 356/3-1). J.W. acknowledges the support of DFG priority program SPP 1992 "Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets" (WA 1047/11-1). S.M. and W.Z. were partly supported by the National Science Foundation of China (grant No. 12133005). R.F.J. acknowledges support for this project provided by ANID's Millennium Science Initiative through grant ICN12_009, awarded to the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS), and by ANID's Basal project FB210003. This paper made use of the tools and data provided by the NASA Exoplanet Database, together with many elements of the astropy astronomical data analysis package, and the Aladdin Sky Atlas suite. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), procossed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. The ROME team would like to thank Michael Lund from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute for his support in curating and archiving these data products for public release.
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- 1538-3873
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 80NSSC19K0291
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- TS 356/3-1
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- 12133005
- Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
- ICN12_009
- Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
- FB210003
- European Space Agency
- Gaia Multilateral Agreement
- Caltech groups
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)