Probable brown dwarf companions detected in binary microlensing events during the 2018-2020 seasons of the KMTNet survey
Abstract
Aims: We inspect the microlensing data of the KMTNet survey collected during the 2018-2020 seasons in order to find lensing events produced by binaries with brown dwarf (BD) companions.
Methods: In order to pick out binary-lens events with candidate BD lens companions, we conducted systematic analyses of all anomalous lensing events observed during the seasons from 2018 to 2020. By applying a selection criterion of mass ratio between the lens components of 0.03 ≲ q ≲ 0.1, we identify four binary-lens events with candidate BD companions, namely KMT-2018-BLG-0321, KMT-2018-BLG-0885, KMT-2019-BLG-0297, and KMT-2019-BLG-0335. For the individual events, we present interpretations of the lens systems and measure the observables that can be used to constrain the physical lens parameters.
Results: The masses of the lens companions estimated from the Bayesian analyses based on the measured observables indicate high probabilities that the lens companions are in the BD mass regime; that is, 59%, 68%, 66%, and 66% for the four respective events.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- July 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2305.06605
- Bibcode:
- 2023A&A...675A..71H
- Keywords:
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- gravitational lensing: micro;
- brown dwarfs;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 8 figures