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Lens parameters for Gaia18cbf: a long gravitational microlensing event in the Galactic plane

The timescale of a microlensing event scales as a square root of a lens mass. Therefore, long-lasting events are important candidates for massive lenses, including black holes.Here, we present the analysis of the <i>Gaia<i/>18cbf microlensing event reported by the <i>Gaia<i/>...

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Main Authors: Kruszyńska, Katarzyna (Author) , Wyrzykowski, Lukasz (Author) , Rybicki, Kris A. (Author) , Maskoliūnas, M. (Author) , Bachelet, Etienne (Author) , Rattenbury, Nicholas James (Author) , Mróz, P. (Author) , Zieliński, P. (Author) , Howil, K. (Author) , Kaczmarek, Z. (Author) , Hodgkin, Simon T. (Author) , Ihanec, N. (Author) , Gezer, I. (Author) , Gromadzki, M. (Author) , Mikołajczyk, P. (Author) , Stankevičiūtė, A. (Author) , Čepas, V. (Author) , Pakštienė, E. (Author) , Šiškauskaitė, K. (Author) , Zdanavičius, J. (Author) , Bozza, V. (Author) , Dominik, M. (Author) , Jaimes, R. Figuera (Author) , Fukui, A. (Author) , Hundertmark, Markus (Author) , Narita, N. (Author) , Street, R. (Author) , Tsapras, Yiannis (Author) , Bronikowski, M. (Author) , Jabłońska, M. (Author) , Jabłonowska, A. (Author) , Ziółkowska, O. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 14 June 2022
In: Astronomy and astrophysics
Year: 2022, Volume: 662, Pages: 1-12
ISSN:1432-0746
DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202142602
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142602
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/06/aa42602-21/aa42602-21.html
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Author Notes:K. Kruszyńska, Ł Wyrzykowski, K. A. Rybicki, M. Maskoliūnas, E. Bachelet, N. Rattenbury, P. Mróz, P. Zieliński, K. Howil, Z. Kaczmarek, S. T. Hodgkin, N. Ihanec, I. Gezer, M. Gromadzki, P. Mikołajczyk, A. Stankevičiūtė, V. Čepas, E. Pakštienė, K. Šiškauskaitė, J. Zdanavičius, V. Bozza, M. Dominik, R. Figuera Jaimes, A. Fukui, M. Hundertmark, N. Narita, R. Street, Y. Tsapras, M. Bronikowski, M. Jabłońska, A. Jabłonowska, and O. Ziółkowska
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Summary:The timescale of a microlensing event scales as a square root of a lens mass. Therefore, long-lasting events are important candidates for massive lenses, including black holes.Here, we present the analysis of the <i>Gaia<i/>18cbf microlensing event reported by the <i>Gaia<i/> Science Alerts system. It exhibited a long timescale and features that are common for the annual microlensing parallax effect. We deduce the parameters of the lens based on the derived best fitting model. We used photometric data collected by the <i>Gaia<i/> satellite as well as the follow-up data gathered by the ground-based observatories. We investigated the range of microlensing models and used them to derive the most probable mass and distance to the lens using a Galactic model as a prior. Using a known mass-brightness relation, we determined how likely it is that the lens is a main-sequence (MS) star. This event is one of the longest ever detected, with the Einstein timescale of days for the best solution and days for the second best. Assuming Galaxy priors, this translates to the most probable lens masses of and , respectively. The limits on the blended light suggest that this event was most likely not caused by a MS star, but rather by a dark remnant of stellar evolution.
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ISSN:1432-0746
DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202142602

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