تقرير
Characterizing Low-Mass Binaries From Observation of Long Time-scale Caustic-crossing Gravitational Microlensing Events
العنوان: | Characterizing Low-Mass Binaries From Observation of Long Time-scale Caustic-crossing Gravitational Microlensing Events |
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المؤلفون: | Shin, I. -G., Han, C., Choi, J. -Y., Udalski, A., Sumi, T., Gould, A., Bozza, V., Dominik, M., Fouqué, P., Horne, K., Szymański, K., Kubiak, M., Soszyński, I., Pietrzyński, G., Poleski, R., Ulaczyk, K., Pietrukowicz, P., Kozłowski, S., Skowron, J., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Abe, F., Bennett, D. P., Bond, I. A., Botzler, C. S., Chote, P., Freeman, M., Fukui, A., Furusawa, K., Itow, Y., Kobara, S., Ling, C. H., Masuda, K., Matsubara, Y., Miyake, N., Muraki, Y., Ohmori, K., Ohnishi, K., Rattenbury, N. J., Saito, To., Sullivan, D. J., Suzuki, D., Suzuki, K., Sweatman, W. L., Takino, S., Tristram, P. J., Wada, K., Yock, P. C. M., Bramich, D. M., Snodgrass, C., Steele, I. A., Street, R. A., Tsapras, Y., Alsubai, K. A., Browne, P., Burgdorf, M. J., Novati, S. Calchi, Dodds, P., Dreizler, S., Fang, X. -S., Grundahl, F., Gu, C. -H., Hardis, S., Harpsøe, K., Hinse, T. C., Hornstrup, A., Hundertmark, M., Jessen-Hansen, J., Jørgensen, U. G., Kains, N., Kerins, E., Liebig, C., Lund, M., Lunkkvist, M., Mancini, L., Mathiasen, M., Penny, M. T., Rahvar, S., Ricci, D., Scarpetta, G., Skottfelt, J., Southworth, J., Surdej, J., Tregloan-Reed, J., Wambsganss, J., Wertz, O., Almeida, L. A., Batista, V., Christie, G., DePoy, D. L., Dong, Subo, Gaudi, B. S., Henderson, C., Jablonski, F., Lee, C. -U., McCormick, J., McGregor, D., Moorhouse, D., Natusch, T., Ngan, H., Park, S. -Y., Pogge, R. W., Tan, T. -G., Thornley, G., Yee, J. C., Albrow, M. D., Bachelet, E., Beaulieu, J. -P., Brillant, S., Cassan, A., Cole, A. A., Corrales, E., Coutures, C., Dieters, S., Prester, D. Dominis, Donatowicz, J., Greenhill, J., Kubas, D., Marquette, J. -B., Menzies, J. W., Sahu, K. C., Zub, M. |
سنة النشر: | 2012 |
المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
الوصف: | Despite astrophysical importance of binary star systems, detections are limited to those located in small ranges of separations, distances, and masses and thus it is necessary to use a variety of observational techniques for a complete view of stellar multiplicity across a broad range of physical parameters. In this paper, we report the detections and measurements of 2 binaries discovered from observations of microlensing events MOA-2011-BLG-090 and OGLE-2011-BLG-0417. Determinations of the binary masses are possible by simultaneously measuring the Einstein radius and the lens parallax. The measured masses of the binary components are 0.43 $M_{\odot}$ and 0.39 $M_{\odot}$ for MOA-2011-BLG-090 and 0.57 $M_{\odot}$ and 0.17 $M_{\odot}$ for OGLE-2011-BLG-0417 and thus both lens components of MOA-2011-BLG-090 and one component of OGLE-2011-BLG-0417 are M dwarfs, demonstrating the usefulness of microlensing in detecting binaries composed of low-mass components. From modeling of the light curves considering full Keplerian motion of the lens, we also measure the orbital parameters of the binaries. The blended light of OGLE-2011-BLG-0417 comes very likely from the lens itself, making it possible to check the microlensing orbital solution by follow-up radial-velocity observation. For both events, the caustic-crossing parts of the light curves, which are critical for determining the physical lens parameters, were resolved by high-cadence survey observations and thus it is expected that the number of microlensing binaries with measured physical parameters will increase in the future. Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/91 |
URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2869 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.1204.2869 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/91 |
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