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Potential direct single-star mass measurement

  • We analyze the light curve of the microlensing event OGLE-2003-BLG-175/MOA-2003-BLG-45 and show that it has two properties that, when combined with future high-resolution astrometry, could lead to a direct, accurate measurement of the lens mass. First, the light curve shows clear signs of distortion due to the Earth's accelerated motion, which yields a measurement of the projected Einstein radius (r) over tilde (E). Second, from precise astrometric measurements, we show that the blended light in the event is coincident with the microlensed source to within about 15 mas. This argues strongly that this blended light is the lens and hence opens the possibility of directly measuring the lens- source relative proper motion mu(rel) and so the mass M=(c(2)/4G)mu(rel)t(E)(r) over tilde (E), where t(E) is the measured Einstein timescale. While the light-curve-based measurement of (r) over tildeE is, by itself, severely degenerate, we show that this degeneracy can be completely resolved by measuring the direction of proper motion mu(rel)

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Author details:H. Ghosh, D. L. DePoy, A. Gal-Yam, B. S. Gaudi, A. Gould, C. Han, Y. Lipkin, D. Maoz, E. O. Ofek, B. G. Park, R. W. Pogge, S. Salim, Fumio Abe, David P. Bennett, I. A. Bond, S. Eguchi, Y. Furuta, John B. Hearnshaw, K. Kamiya, Pam M. Kilmartin, Y. Kurata, Kimiaki Masuda, Yutaka Matsubara, Y. Muraki, S. Noda, K. Okajima, N. J. Rattenbury, T. Sako, T. Sekiguchi, D. J. Sullivan, T. Sumi, P. J. Tristram, T. Yanagisawa, P. C. M. Yock, A. Udalski, I. Soszynski, X. Wyrzykowski, Marcin Kubiak, M. K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, O. Szewczyk, Zebru
ISSN:0004-637X
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2004
Publication year:2004
Release date:2017/03/24
Source:Astrophysical Journal. - ISSN 0004-637X. - 615 (2004), 1, S. 450 - 459
Organizational units:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie
Peer review:Referiert
Institution name at the time of the publication:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik
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