Four binary microlenses with directly measured masses
Abstract
We investigated binary lens events from the 2022-2024 microlensing surveys, aiming to identify events suitable for lens mass measurements. We focused on two key light curve features: distinct caustic spikes with resolved crossings for measuring the angular Einstein radius (), and long durations enabling microlens-parallax () measurements. Four events met these criteria: KMT-2022-BLG-1479, KMT-2023-BLG-0932, OGLE-2024-BLG-0142, and KMT-2024-BLG-1309. We estimated the angular Einstein radius by combining the normalized source radius measured from modeling the resolved caustic spikes with the angular source radius derived from the source color and magnitude. Additionally, we determined the microlens parallax through light curve modeling, considering higher-order effects caused by the orbital motions of Earth and the binary lens. With measurements of the event timescale, angular Einstein radius, and microlens parallax, we uniquely determined the mass and distance of the lens. For the events KMT-2022-BLG-1479, KMT-2023-BLG-0932, and KMT-2024-BLG-1309, both components of the binary lens have masses lower than that of the Sun, consistent with M-type dwarfs, which are the most common type of lenses in Galactic microlensing events. These lenses are relatively nearby, with distances kpc, indicating their location within the Galactic disk. In contrast, for OGLE-2024-BLG-0142, the primary lens component has a mass similar to that of the Sun, while the companion lens component has about half the mass of the primary. This lens system is situated at a greater distance, roughly 4.5 kpc.
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@article{arxiv.2508.11079,
title = {Four binary microlenses with directly measured masses},
author = {Cheongho Han and Andrzej Udalski and Chung-Uk Lee and Ian A. Bond and Michael D. Albrow and Sun-Ju Chung and Andrew Gould and Youn Kil Jung and Kyu-Ha Hwang and Yoon-Hyun Ryu and Yossi Shvartzvald and In-Gu Shin and Jennifer C. Yee and Weicheng Zang and Hongjing Yang and Sang-Mok Cha and Doeon Kim and Dong-Jin Kim and Seung-Lee Kim and Dong-Joo Lee and Yongseok Lee and Byeong-Gon Park and Richard W. Pogge and Przemek Mróz and Michał K. Szymański and Jan Skowron and Radosław Poleski and Igor Soszyński and Paweł Pietrukowicz and Szymon Kozłowski and Krzysztof A. Rybicki and Patryk Iwanek and Krzysztof Ulaczyk and Marcin Wrona and Mariusz Gromadzki and Mateusz J. Mróz and Michał Jaroszyński and Marcin Kiraga and Fumio Abe and David P. Bennett and Aparna Bhattacharya and Akihiko Fukui and Ryusei Hamada and Stela Ishitani Silva and Yuki Hirao and Naoki Koshimoto and Yutaka Matsubara and Shota Miyazaki and Yasushi Muraki and Tutumi Nagai and Kansuke Nunota and Greg Olmschenk and Clément Ranc and Nicholas J. Rattenbury and Yuki Satoh and Takahiro Sumi and Daisuke Suzuki and Sean K. Terry and Paul J. Tristram and Aikaterini Vandorou and Hibiki Yama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11079},
year = {2025}
}
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11 pages, 9 figures