Shvartzvald, Yossi, Yee, Jennifer C., Skowron, Jan, Lee, Chung-Uk, Udalski, Andrzej, Novati, Sebastiano Calchi, Bozza, Valerio, Beichman, Charles A., Bryden, Geoffery, Carey, Sean, and others. (2019) Spitzer Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2017-BLG-0896 Reveals a Counter-rotating Low-mass Brown Dwarf. The Astronomical Journal, 157 (3). Article Number 106. ISSN 1538-3881. (doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aafe12) (KAR id:74000)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aafe12 |
Resource title: | Spitzer Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2017-BLG-0896 Reveals a Counter-Rotating Low-Mass Brown Dwarf |
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External URL: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08778 |
Abstract
The kinematics of isolated brown dwarfs in the Galaxy, beyond the solar neighborhood, is virtually unknown. Microlensing has the potential to probe this hidden population, as it can measure both the mass and five of the six phase-space coordinates (all except the radial velocity) even of a dark isolated lens. However, the measurements of both the microlens-parallax and finite-source effects are needed in order to recover the full information. Here, we combine the Spitzer satellite parallax measurement with the ground-based light curve, which exhibits strong finite-source effects, of event OGLE-2017-BLG-0896. We find two degenerate solutions for the lens (due to the known satellite-parallax degeneracy), which are consistent with each other except for their proper motion. The lens is an isolated brown dwarf with a mass of either 18 ± 1 M J or 20 ± 1 M J . This is the lowest isolated-object mass measurement to date, only ~45% more massive than the theoretical deuterium-fusion boundary at solar metallicity, which is the common definition of a free-floating planet. The brown dwarf is located at either 3.9 ± 0.1 kpc or 4.1 ± 0.1 kpc toward the Galactic bulge, but with proper motion in the opposite direction of disk stars, with one solution suggesting it is moving within the Galactic plane. While it is possibly a halo brown dwarf, it might also represent a different, unknown population.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.3847/1538-3881/aafe12 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Galaxy: bulge – gravitational lensing: micro |
Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy |
Depositing User: | Stephen Lowry |
Date Deposited: | 21 May 2019 09:28 UTC |
Last Modified: | 08 Dec 2022 21:47 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/74000 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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