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  • 标题:Candidate Brown-dwarf Microlensing Events with Very Short Timescales and Small Angular Einstein Radii
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  • 作者:Cheongho Han ; Chung-Uk Lee ; Andrzej Udalski
  • 期刊名称:The Astronomical journal
  • 印刷版ISSN:0004-6256
  • 电子版ISSN:1538-3881
  • 出版年度:2020
  • 卷号:159
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:1810-1819
  • DOI:10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f66
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:American Institute of Physics
  • 摘要:Short-timescale microlensing events are likely to be produced by substellar brown dwarfs (BDs), but it is difficult to securely identify BD lenses based on only event timescales ${t}_{{\rm{E}}}$ because short-timescale events can also be produced by stellar lenses with high relative lens-source proper motions.In this paper, we report three strong candidate BD-lens events found from the search for lensing events not only with short timescales (${t}_{{\rm{E}}}\lesssim 6\,\mathrm{days}$) but also with very small angular Einstein radii (${\theta }_{{\rm{E}}}\lesssim 0.05\,\mathrm{mas}$) among the events that have been found in the 2016–2019 observing seasons.These events include MOA-2017-BLG-147, MOA-2017-BLG-241, and MOA-2019-BLG-256, in which the first two events are produced by single lenses and the last event is produced by a binary lens.From the Monte Carlo simulations of Galactic events conducted with the combined ${t}_{{\rm{E}}}$ and ${\theta }_{{\rm{E}}}$ constraint, it is estimated that the lens masses of the individual events are ${0.051}_{-0.027}^{+0.100}\,{M}_{\odot }$, ${0.044}_{-0.023}^{+0.090}\,{M}_{\odot }$, and ${0.046}_{-0.023}^{+0.067}\,{M}_{\odot }/{0.038}_{-0.019}^{+0.056}\,{M}_{\odot }$ and the probability of the lens mass smaller than the lower limit of stars is ~80% for all events.We point out that routine lens mass measurements of short-timescale lensing events require survey-mode space-based observations.
  • 关键词:Gravitational microlensing;Brown dwarfs
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