Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing
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 {M}{{J}} 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.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 2016
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1510.02097
- Bibcode:
- 2016ApJ...825...60Z
- Keywords:
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- brown dwarfs;
- gravitational lensing: micro;
- stars: fundamental parameters;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 10 papers, 4 figures, 2 tables