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Spitzer IRAC Photometry for Time Series in Crowded Fields

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arxiv 1509.00037 v2 pith:3NQNRLJA submitted 2015-08-31 astro-ph.EP

Spitzer IRAC Photometry for Time Series in Crowded Fields

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We develop a new photometry algorithm that is optimized for $Spitzer$ time series in crowded fields and that is particularly adapted to faint and/or heavily blended targets. We apply this to the 170 targets from the 2015 $Spitzer$ microlensing campaign and present the results of three variants of this algorithm in an online catalog. We present detailed accounts of the application of this algorithm to two difficult cases, one very faint and the other very crowded. Several of $Spitzer$'s instrumental characteristics that drive the specific features of this algorithm are shared by $Kepler$ and $WFIRST$, implying that these features may prove to be a useful starting point for algorithms designed for microlensing campaigns by these other missions.

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