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MASS MEASUREMENTS OF ISOLATED OBJECTS FROM SPACE-BASED MICROLENSING

Zhu, W, Novati, SC, Gould, A, Udalski, A, Han, C, Shvartzvald, Y, Ranc, C, Jorgensen, UG, Poleski, R, Bozza, V, Beichman, C, Bryden, G, Carey, S, Gaudi, BS, Henderson, CB, Pogge, RW, Porritt, I, Wibking, B, Yee, JC, Pawlak, M , Szymanski, MK, Skowron, J, Mroz, P, Kozlowski, S, Wyrzykowski, L, Pietrukowicz, P, Pietrzynski, G, Soszynski, I, Ulaczyk, K, Choi, J-Y, Park, H, Jung, YK, Shin, I-G, Albrow, MD, Park, B-G, Kim, S-L, Lee, C-U, Cha, S-M, Kim, D-J, Lee, Y, Friedmann, M, Kaspi, S, Maoz, D, Hundertmark, M, Street, RA, Tsapras, Y, Bramich, DM, Cassan, A, Dominik, M, Bachelet, E, Dong, S, Jaimes, RF, Horne, K, Mao, S, Menzies, J, Schmidt, R, Snodgrass, C, Steele, IA, Wambsganss, J, Skottfelt, J, Andersen, MI, Burgdorf, MJ, Ciceri, S, D'Ago, G, Evans, DF, Gu, S-H, Hinse, TC, Kerins, E, Korhonen, H, Kuffmeier, M, Mancini, L, Peixinho, N, Popovas, A, Rabus, M, Rahvar, S, Tronsgaard, R, Scarpetta, G, Southworth, J, Surdej, J, von Essen, C, Wang, Y-B and Wertz, O (2016) MASS MEASUREMENTS OF ISOLATED OBJECTS FROM SPACE-BASED MICROLENSING. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 825 (1). ISSN 0004-637X

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Abstract

We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 Spitzer microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax measurements, we find that the lens of OGLE-2015-BLG-1268 is very likely a brown dwarf (BD). Assuming that the source star lies behind the same amount of dust as the Bulge red clump, we find the lens is a 45±7 MJ BD at 5.9±1.0 kpc. The lens of of the second event, OGLE-2015-BLG-0763, is a 0.50±0.04 M star at 6.9±1.0 kpc. We show that the probability to definitively measure the mass of isolated microlenses is dramatically increased once simultaneous ground- and space-based observations are conducted.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, 0305 Organic Chemistry, 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Q Science > QD Chemistry
Divisions: Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD
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Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2016 09:05
Last Modified: 02 Aug 2022 14:27
DOI or ID number: 10.3847/0004-637X/825/1/60
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4263
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