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2020ApJ...897..180Z - Astrophys. J., 897, 180-180 (2020/July-2)

Spitzer + VLTI-GRAVITY measure the lens mass of a nearby microlensing event.

ZANG W., DONG S., GOULD A., CALCHI NOVATI S., CHEN P., YANG H., LI S.-S., MAO S., ALTON K.B., BRIMACOMBE J., CAREY S., CHRISTIE G.W., DELPLANCKE-STROBELE F., FELIZ D.L., GAUDI B.S., GREEN J., HU S., JAYASINGHE T., KOFF R.A., KURTENKOV A., MERAND A., MINEV M., MUTEL R., NATUSCH T., ROTH T., SHVARTZVALD Y., SUN F., VANMUNSTER T. and ZHU W.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the lens mass and distance measurements of the nearby microlensing event TCP J05074264+2447555 (Kojima-1). We measure the microlens parallax vector πE using Spitzer and ground-based light curves with constraints on the direction of lens-source relative proper motion derived from Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) GRAVITY observations. Combining this πE determination with the angular Einstein radius θE measured by VLTI-GRAVITY observations, we find that the lens is a star with mass ML=0.495±0.063M at a distance DL = 429 ± 21 pc. We find that the blended light basically all comes from the lens. The lens-source proper motion is µrel,hel=26.55±0.36masyr–1, so with currently available adaptive-optics instruments, the lens and source can be resolved in 2021. This is the first microlensing event whose lens mass is unambiguously measured by interferometry + satellite-parallax observations, which opens a new window for mass measurements of isolated objects such as stellar-mass black holes.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Gravitational microlensing - Satellite microlensing parallax - Stellar masses - Stellar distance

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/ApJ/897/180): fig1.dat>

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