OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M-Dwarf Planetary Companion?
Subo Dong, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski, Jay Anderson, G. W. Christie, B. S. Gaudi, M. Jaroszynski, M. Kubiak, M. K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O… 展开作者
Subo Dong, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski, Jay Anderson, G. W. Christie, B. S. Gaudi, M. Jaroszynski, M. Kubiak, M. K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, K. Ulaczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, D. L. DePoy, D. B. Fox, A. Gal-Yam, C. Han, S. Lepine, J. McCormick, E. Ofek, B. -G. Park, R. W. Pogge, F. Abe, D. P. Bennett, I. A. Bond, T. R. Britton, A. C. Gilmore, J. B. Hearnshaw, Y. Itow, K. Kamiya, P. M. Kilmartin, A. Korpela, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, M. Motomura, Y. Muraki, S. Nakamura, K. Ohnishi, C. Okada, N. Rattenbury, To. Saito, T. Sako, M. Sasaki, D. Sullivan, T. Sumi, P. J. Tristram, T. Yanagisawa, P. C. M. Yock, T. Yoshoika, M. D. Albrow, J. P. Beaulieu, S. Brillant, H. Calitz, A. Cassan, K. H. Cook, Ch. Coutures, S. Dieters, D. Dominis Prester, J. Donatowicz, P. Fouque, J. Greenhill, K. Hill, M. Hoffman, K. Horne, U. G. Jorgensen, S. Kane, D. Kubas, J. B. Marquette, R. Martin, P. Meintjes, J. Menzies, K. R. Pollard, K. C. Sahu, C. Vinter, J. Wambsganss, A. Williams, M. Bode, D. M. Bramich, M. Burgdorf, C. Snodgrass, I. Steele, Vanessa Doublier, Cedric Foellmi
We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include photometric and astrometric measurements from Hubble Space Telescope, as well as constraints from higher order effects extracted from the ground-based light curve, such as microlens parallax, planetary orbital motion and finite-source effects. Our primary analysis leads to the conclusion that the host of Jovian planet OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb is an M dwarf in the foreground disk with mass M= 0.46 +/- 0.04 Msun, distance D_l = 3.3 +/- 0.4 kpc, and thick-disk kinematics v_LSR ~ 103 km/s. From the best-fit model, the planet has mass M_p = 3.8 +/- 0.4 M_Jup, lies at a projected separation r_perp = 3.6 +/- 0.2 AU from its host and so has an equilibrium temperature of T ~ 55 K, i.e., similar to Neptune. A degenerate model less favored by Δχ^2 = 2.1 (or 2.2, depending on the sign of the impact parameter) gives similar planetary mass M_p = 3.4 +/- 0.4 M_Jup with a smaller projected separation, r_\perp = 2.1 +/- 0.1 AU, and higher equilibrium temperature T ~ 71 K. These results from the primary analysis suggest that OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb is likely to be the most massive planet yet discovered that is hosted by an M dwarf. However, the formation of such high-mass planetary companions in the outer regions of M-dwarf planetary systems is predicted to be unlikely within the core-accretion scenario. There are a number of caveats to this primary analysis, which assumes (based on real but limited evidence) that the unlensed light coincident with the source is actually due to the lens, that is, the planetary host. However, these caveats could mostly be resolved by a single astrometric measurement a few years after the event.
The Microlensing Event MACHO-99-BLG-22/OGLE-1999-BUL-32: An Intermediate Mass Black Hole, or a Lens in the Bulge
我们对迄今为止发现的最长时间尺度的引力微透镜事件进行了重新分析:AMO-99-BLG-22/OGLE-1999-BUL-32,这是由AMO和OGLE微透镜警报系统发现的。我们对微透镜视差事件的分析包括基于银河系速度分布的标准模型的透镜位置的可能性分析,这意味着透镜可能是银河系圆盘中距离几百秒差距的~100 M太阳的黑洞或银河系凸起中的大质量恒星残骸(黑洞或中子星)。除了Mao et al(2002)在先前分析中使用的OGLE数据外,我们的新分析还包括来自CNOO、GMAN和MPS合作的数据。区分我们的分析与毛等人的分析的关键特征是对透镜运动方向的精确约束以及对该方向的含义的分析。
Microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-055 is characterized by a smooth, slightly asymmetric single-lens curve with an isolated, secure data point that is ~0.6 magnitudes brighter than neighboring points separated by a few days. It was previously suggested that the single deviant data point and global asymmetry were best explained by a planetary companion to the primary lens with mass ratio log(q)=-3 to -2, and parallax effects induced by the motion of the Earth. We revisit the interpretation of OGLE-2002-BLG-055, and show that the data can be explained by wide variety of models. We find that the de…