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OGLE-2014-BLG-1112LB: a microlensing brown dwarf detected through the channel of a gravitational binary-lens event

Due to the nature of the gravitational field, microlensing, in principle, provides an important tool for detecting faint and even dark brown dwarfs. However, the number of identified brown dwarfs is limited due to the difficulty of the lens mass measurement that is needed to check the substellar nature...

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Main Authors: Han, Cheongho (Author) , Jørgensen, Uffe G. (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 2017 July 6
In: The astrophysical journal
Year: 2017, Volume: 843, Issue: 2
ISSN:1538-4357
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/aa762f
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa762f
Verlag, Volltext: http://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/843/i=2/a=87?key=crossref.f933788727c1d69a28a3e7555cc93217
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Author Notes:C. Han, A. Udalski, V. Bozza, and M.K. Szymański, I. Soszyński, J. Skowron, P. Mróz, R. Poleski, P. Pietrukowicz, S. Kozłowski, K. Ulaczyk, Ł. Wyrzykowski (The OGLE Collaboration), and S. Calchi Novati, G. D’Ago, M. Dominik, M. Hundertmark, U.G. Jorgensen, G. Scarpetta, (The MiNDSTEp Consortium)
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Summary:Due to the nature of the gravitational field, microlensing, in principle, provides an important tool for detecting faint and even dark brown dwarfs. However, the number of identified brown dwarfs is limited due to the difficulty of the lens mass measurement that is needed to check the substellar nature of the lensing object. In this work, we report a microlensing brown dwarf discovered from an analysis of the gravitational binary-lens event OGLE-2014-BLG1112. We identify the brown dwarf nature of the lens companion by measuring the lens mass from the detections of both microlens-parallax and finite-source effects. We find that the companion has a mass of (3.03  0.78) ´ 10-2 M and it is orbiting a solar-type primary star with a mass of 1.07  0.28 M. The estimated projected separation between the lens components is 9.63±1.33 au and the distance to the lens is 4.84±0.67 kpc. We discuss the usefulness of space-based microlensing observations for detecting brown dwarfs through the channel of binary-lens events.
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ISSN:1538-4357
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/aa762f

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