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OGLE-2013-BLG-0102LA,B: Microlensing binary with components at star/brown-dwarf and brown-dwarf/planet boundaries

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-06-22 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0102. The light curve of the event is characterized by a strong short-term anomaly superposed on a smoothly varying lensing curve with a moderate magnification Amax1.5A_{\rm max}\sim 1.5. It is found that the event was produced by a binary lens with a mass ratio between the components of q=0.13q = 0.13 and the anomaly was caused by the passage of the source trajectory over a caustic located away from the barycenter of the binary. From the analysis of the effects on the light curve due to the finite size of the source and the parallactic motion of the Earth, the physical parameters of the lens system are determined. The measured masses of the lens components are M1=0.096±0.013 MM_{1} = 0.096 \pm 0.013~M_{\odot} and M2=0.012±0.002 MM_{2} = 0.012 \pm 0.002~M_{\odot}, which correspond to near the hydrogen-burning and deuterium-burning mass limits, respectively. The distance to the lens is 3.04±0.31 kpc3.04 \pm 0.31~{\rm kpc} and the projected separation between the lens components is 0.80±0.08 AU0.80 \pm 0.08~{\rm AU}.

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@article{arxiv.1407.7926,
  title  = {OGLE-2013-BLG-0102LA,B: Microlensing binary with components at star/brown-dwarf and brown-dwarf/planet boundaries},
  author = {Y. K. Jung and A. Udalski and T. Sumi and C. Han and A. Gould and J. Skowron and S. Kozłowski and R. Poleski and Ł. Wyrzykowski and M. K. Szymański and G. Pietrzyński and I. Soszyński and K. Ulaczyk and P. Pietrukowicz and P. Mróz and M. Kubiak and F. Abe and D. P. Bennett and I. A. Bond and C. S. Botzler and M. Freeman and A. Fukui and D. Fukunaga and Y. Itow and N. Koshimoto and P. Larsen and C. H. Ling and K. Masuda and Y. Matsubara and Y. Muraki and S. Namba and K. Ohnishi and L. Philpott and N. J. Rattenbury and To. Saito and D. J. Sullivan and D. Suzuki and P. J. Tristram and N. Tsurumi and K. Wada and N. Yamai and P. C. M. Yock and A. Yonehara and M. Albrow and J. -Y. Choi and D. L. DePoy and B. S. Gaudi and K. -H. Hwang and C. -U. Lee and H. Park and S. Owen and R. W. Pogge and I. -G. Shin and J. C. Yee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7926},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 figures, 2 tables, ApJ submitted