fbartolic / caustics

Differentiable microlensing powered by JAX
https://fbartolic.github.io/caustics/
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There's a small positive bias in the extended source magnification calculation #18

Open fbartolic opened 2 years ago

fbartolic commented 2 years ago

There's a slight positive bias in the extended source magnification (less than $10^{-4}$ in magnitude):

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The plot is error relative to VBB but the hexadecapole approximation confirms that the bias is real.