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Using Source Proper Motion to Validate Terrestrial Parallax: OGLE-2019-BLG-1058

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2021-12-08 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We show that because the conditions for producing terrestrial microlens parallax (TPRX; i.e., a nearby disk lens) will also tend to produce a large lens-source relative proper motion (μrel\mu_{\rm rel}), source proper motion (μS{\boldsymbol\mu}_{\rm S}) measurements in general provide a strong test of TPRX signals, which \citet{gould13} showed were an important probe of free-floating planet (FFP) candidates. As a case study, we report a single-lens/single-source microlensing event designated as OGLE-2019-BLG-1058. For this event, the short timescale (2.5\sim 2.5 days) and very fast μrel\mu_{\rm rel} (17.6masyr1\sim 17.6\, {\rm mas\, yr^{-1}}) suggest that this isolated lens is an FFP candidate located in the disk of our Galaxy. For this event, we find a TPRX signal consistent with a disk FFP, but at low significance. A direct measurement of the μS{\boldsymbol\mu}_{\rm S} shows that the large μrel\mu_{\rm rel} is due to an extreme μS{\boldsymbol\mu}_{\rm S}, and thus, the lens is consistent with being a very low-mass star in the bulge and the TPRX measurement is likely spurious. By contrast, we show how a precise measurement of μS{\boldsymbol\mu}_{\rm S} with the mean properties of the bulge proper motion distribution would have given the opposite result; i.e., provided supporting evidence for an FFP in the disk and the TPRX measurement.

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@article{arxiv.2108.02499,
  title  = {Using Source Proper Motion to Validate Terrestrial Parallax: OGLE-2019-BLG-1058},
  author = {In-Gu Shin and Jennifer C. Yee and Kyu-Ha Hwang and Andrzej Udalski and Andrew Gould and Michael D. Albrow and Sun-Ju Chung and Cheongho Han and Youn Kil Jung and Hyoun-Woo Kim and Yoon-Hyun Ryu and Yossi Shvartzvald and Weicheng Zang and Sang-Mok Cha and Dong-Jin Kim and Seung-Lee Kim and Chung-Uk Lee 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 Radek Poleski and Igor Soszyński and Paweł Pietrukowicz and Szymon Kozłowski and Krzysztof Ulaczyk and Krzysztof A. Rybicki and Patryk Iwanek and Marcin Wrona and Mariusz Gromadzki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.02499},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, accepted for a publication in the AJ

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