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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 ${M}_{{\rm{J}}}$ BD at 5.9 ± 1.0 kpc. The lens of of the second event, OGLE-2015-BLG-0763, is a 0.50 ± 0.04 ${M}_{\odot }$ 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
Additional Information: © American Astronomical Society, IOP Publishing
Uncontrolled Keywords: brown dwarfs, gravitational lensing, micro, stars, fundamental parameters
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Physical and Geographical Sciences
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Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 01 Nov 2016 14:43
Last Modified: 11 Apr 2019 08:40
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/2395

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