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Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing

Authors :
Zhu, Wei
Novati, S. Calchi
Gould, A.
Udalski, A.
Han, C.
Shvartzvald, Y.
Ranc, C.
Jorgensen, U. G.
Poleski, R.
Bozza, V.
Beichman, C.
Bryden, G.
Carey, S.
Gaudi, B. S.
Henderson, C. B.
Pogge, R. W.
Porritt, I.
Wibking, B.
Yee, J. C.
Pawlak, M.
Szymanski, M. K.
Skowron, J.
Mroz, P.
Kozlowski, S.
Wyrzykowski, L.
Pietrukowicz, P.
Pietrzynski, G.
Soszynski, I.
Ulaczyk, K.
Choi, J. Y.
Park, H.
Jung, Y. K.
Shin, I. -G.
Albrow, M. D.
Park, B. -G.
Kim, S. -L.
Lee, C. -U.
Kim, D. -J.
Lee, Y.
Friedmann, M.
Kaspi, S.
Maoz, D.
Hundertmark, M.
Street, R. A.
Tsapras, Y.
Bramich, D. M.
Cassan, A.
Dominik, M.
Bachelet, E.
Dong, Subo
Jaimes, R. Figuera
Horne, K.
Mao, S.
Menzies, J.
Schmidt, R.
Snodgrass, C.
Steele, I. A.
Wambsganss, J.
Skottfelt, J.
Andersen, M. I.
Burgdorf, M. J.
Ciceri, S.
D'Ago, G.
Evans, D. F.
Gu, S. -H.
Hinse, T. C.
Kerins, E.
Korhonen, H.
Kuffmeier, M.
Mancini, L.
Peixinho, N.
popovas, A.
Rabus, M.
Rahvar, S.
Rasmussen, R. T.
Scarpetta, G.
Southworth, J.
Surdej, J.
von Essen, C.
Wang, Y. -B.
Wertz, O.
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 \emph{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. Assuming that the source star lies behind the same amount of dust as the Bulge red clump, we find the lens is a $45\pm7$ $M_{\rm J}$ brown dwarf at $5.9\pm1.0$ kpc. The lens of of the second event, OGLE-2015-BLG-0763, is a $0.50\pm0.04$ $M_\odot$ star at $6.9\pm1.0$ 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.<br />Comment: 10 papers, 4 figures, 2 tables; ApJ in press

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1510.02097
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/825/1/60