A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514
Abstract
We report the extremely high magnification (A > 1000) binary microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514. We obtained good coverage around the double peak structure in the light curve via follow-up observations from different observatories. The binary lens model that includes the effects of parallax (known orbital motion of the Earth) and orbital motion of the lens yields a binary lens mass ratio of q = 0.321 +/- 0.007 and a projected separation of s = 0.072 +/- 0.001$ in units of the Einstein radius. The parallax parameters allow us to determine the lens distance D_L = 3.11 +/- 0.39 kpc and total mass M_L=1.40 +/- 0.18 M_sun; this leads to the primary and secondary components having masses of M_1 = 1.06 +/- 0.13 M_sun and M_2 = 0.34 +/- 0.04 M_sun, respectively. The parallax model indicates that the binary lens system is likely constructed by the main sequence stars. On the other hand, we used a Bayesian analysis to estimate probability distributions by the model that includes the effects of xallarap (possible orbital motion of the source around a companion) and parallax (q = 0.270 +/- 0.005, s = 0.083 +/- 0.001). The primary component of the binary lens is relatively massive with M_1 = 0.9_{-0.3}^{+4.6} M_sun and it is at a distance of D_L = 2.6_{-0.9}^{+3.8} kpc. Given the secure mass ratio measurement, the companion mass is therefore M_2 = 0.2_{-0.1}^{+1.2} M_sun. The xallarap model implies that the primary lens is likely a stellar remnant, such as a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole.
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@article{arxiv.1207.1244,
title = {A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514},
author = {N. Miyake and A. Udalski and T. Sumi and D. P. Bennett and S. Dong and R. A. Street and J. Greenhill and I. A. Bond and A. Gould and M. Kubiak and M. K. Szymanski and G. Pietrzynski and I. Soszynski and K. Ulaczyk and L. Wyrzykowski and F. Abe and A. Fukui and K. Furusawa and S. Holderness and Y. Itow and A. Korpela and C. H. Ling and K. Masuda and Y. Matsubara and Y. Muraki and T. Nagayama and K. Ohnishi and N. Rattenbury and To. Saito and T. Sako and D. J. Sullivan and W. L. Sweatman and P. J. Tristram and P. C. M. Yock and W. Allen and G. W. Christie and D. L. DePoy and B. S. Gaudi and C. Han and C. -U. Lee and J. McCormick and B. Monard and T. Natusch and B. -G. Park and R. W. Pogge and A. Allan and M. Bode and D. M. Bramich and N. Clay and M. Dominik and K. D. Horne and N. Kains and C. Mottram and C. Snodgrass and I. Steele and Y. Tsapras and M. D. Albrow and V. Batista and J. P. Beaulieu and S. Brillant and M. Burgdorf and J. A. R. Caldwell and A. Cassan and A. Cole and K. H. Cook and Ch. Coutures and S. Dieters and D. Dominis Prester and J. Donatowicz and P. Fouque and U. G. Jorgensen and S. Kane and D. Kubas and J. B. Marquette and R. Martin and J. Menzies and K. R. Pollard and K. C. Sahu and J. Wambsganss and A. Williams and M. Zub},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.1244},
year = {2015}
}
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31 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables, accepted in ApJ