Spitzer microlensing parallax for OGLE-2017-BLG-0896 reveals a counter-rotating low-mass brown dwarf
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 isol...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2019 February 11
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The astronomical journal
Year: 2019, Volume: 157, Issue: 3, Pages: 106 |
| ISSN: | 1538-3881 |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-3881/aafe12 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aafe12 Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.3847%2F1538-3881%2Faafe12 
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| Author Notes: | Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Jan Skowron, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Sebastiano Calchi Novati, Valerio Bozza, Charles A. Beichman, Geoffery Bryden, Sean Carey, B. Scott Gaudi, Calen B. Henderson, Wei Zhu, Etienne Bachelet, Greg Bolt, Grant Christie, Dan Maoz, Tim Natusch, Richard W. Pogge, Rachel A. Street, Thiam-Guan Tan, Yiannis Tsapras, Paweł Pietrukowicz, Igor Soszyński, Michał K. Szymański, Przemek Mróz, Radoslaw Poleski, Szymon Kozłowski, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Michał Pawlak, Krzysztof A. Rybicki, Patryk Iwanek, Michael D. Albrow, Sang-Mok Cha, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Cheongho Han, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, Dong-Jin Kim, Hyoun-Woo Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Weicheng Zang, Martin Dominik, Christiane Helling, Markus Hundertmark, Uffe G. Jørgensen, Penelope Longa-Peña, Stephen Lowry, Sedighe Sajadian, Martin J. Burgdorf, Justyn Campbell-White, Simona Ciceri, Daniel F. Evans, Yuri I. Fujii, Tobias C. Hinse, Sohrab Rahvar, Markus Rabus, Jesper Skottfelt, Colin Snodgrass, and John Southworth |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 08.03.2019 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1538-3881 |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-3881/aafe12 |