A novel algorithm for analysing gravitational microlensing events

This dissertation presents a new algorithm that was developed to perform autonomous fitting of gravitational microlensing lightcurves. The algorithm combines features of extant evolutionary algorithms with some novel ones, and fares well on the problem of fitting binary lens microlensing lightcurves, as well as on a number of other difficult optimisation problems. Furthermore, the new algorithm is conceptually simple, versatile and robust, and parallelises trivially.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Astronomy

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Rajpaul, Vinesh

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Menzies, John W
• Stewart, I M
• Woudt, Patrick Alan

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11219

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11219