OGLE-2014-BLG-0962 and a Comparison of Galactic Model Priors to Microlensing Data
- Creators
- Shan, Yutong
- Yee, Jennifer C.
- Udalski, Andrzej
- Bond, Ian A.
- Shvartzvald, Yossi
- Shin, In-Gu
- Jung, Youn-Kil
- Calchi Novati, Sebastiano
- Beichman, Charles A.
- Carey, Sean
- Gaudi, B. Scott
- Gould, Andrew
- Pogge, Richard W.
- Poleski, Radosław
- Skowron, Jan
- Kozłowski, Szymon
- Mróz, Przemysław
- Pietrukowicz, Paweł
- Szymański, Michał K.
- Soszyński, Igor
- Ulaczyk, Krzysztof
- Wyrzykowski, Łukasz
- Abe, Fumio
- Barry, Richard K.
- Bennett, David P.
- Bhattacharya, Aparna
- Donachie, Martin
- Fukui, Akihiko
- Hirao, Yuki
- Itow, Yoshitaka
- Kawasaki, Kohei
- Kondo, Iona
- Koshimoto, Naoki
- Li, Man Cheung Alex
- Matsubara, Yutaka
- Muraki, Yasushi
- Miyazaki, Shota
- Nagakane, Masayuki
- Ranc, Clément
- Rattenbury, Nicholas J.
- Suematsu, Haruno
- Sullivan, Denis J.
- Sumi, Takahiro
- Suzuki, Daisuke
- Tristram, Paul J.
- Yonehara, Atsunori
- Maoz, Dan
- Kaspi, Shai
- Friedmann, Matan
- Spitzer Team
- OGLE Collaboration
- MOA Collaboration
- WISE Group
Abstract
OGLE-2014-BLG-0962 (OB140962) is a stellar binary microlensing event that was well covered by observations from the Spitzer satellite as well as ground-based surveys. Modeling yields a unique physical solution: a mid-M+M-dwarf binary with M_(prim) = 0.20 ± 0.01 M☉ and M_(sec) = 0.16 ± 0.01 M☉, with projected separation of 2.0 ± 0.3 au. The lens is only D_(LS) = 0.41 ± 0.06 kpc in front of the source, making OB140962 a bulge lens and the most distant Spitzer binary lens to date. In contrast, because the Einstein radius (θ_E = 0.143 ± 0.007 mas) is unusually small, a standard Bayesian analysis, conducted in the absence of parallax information, would predict a brown dwarf binary. We compare the results of Bayesian analysis using two commonly used Galactic model priors to the measured values for a set of Spitzer lenses. We find all models tested predict lens properties consistent with the Spitzer data. Furthermore, we illustrate the methodology for probing the Galactic distribution of planets by comparing the cumulative distance distribution of the Spitzer two-body lenses to that of the Spitzer single lenses.
Additional Information
© 2019 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2018 May 23; revised 2019 January 15; accepted 2019 January 17; published 2019 February 28. The authors would like to thank John Johnson, Jason Eastman, and other members of the Exolab for providing helpful suggestions and feedback throughout the course of this work. We are grateful to Vinay Kashyap for his statistical guidance. We thank Wei Zhu for contributing the data for the Spitzer single-lens CDF (Figure 12 of Zhu et al. 2017) and for discussions. Y. Shan is supported in part by a Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. The OGLE project has received funding from the National Science Centre, Poland, grant MAESTRO 2014/14/A/ST9/00121 to A.U. The OGLE Team thanks Profs. M. Kubiak and G. Pietrzyński for their contribution to the OGLE photometric data set. The MOA project is supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant Nos. JSPS24253004, JSPS26247023, JSPS23340064, JSPS15H00781, and JP16H06287. This research was supported by the I-CORE program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Israel Science Foundation, grant 1829/12. D.M. and A.G. acknowledge support by the U.S.–Israel Binational Science Foundation.Attached Files
Published - Shan_2019_ApJ_873_30.pdf
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Additional details
- Alternative title
- OGLE-2014-BLG-0962 and the First Statistical Validation of Bayesian Priors for Galactic Microlensing
- Eprint ID
- 92466
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20190124-122631813
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- MAESTRO 2014/14/A/ST9/00121
- National Science Centre (Poland)
- JSPS24253004
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- JSPS26247023
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- JSPS23340064
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- JSPS15H00781
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- JP16H06287
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee
- 1829/12
- Israel Science Foundation
- Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel)
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)