2009ApJ...698L.147G

Query : 2009ApJ...698L.147G

2009ApJ...698L.147G - Astrophys. J., 698, L147-L151 (2009/June-3)

The extreme microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-224: terrestrial parallax observation of a thick-disk brown dwarf.

GOULD A., UDALSKI A., MONARD B., HORNE K., DONG S., MIYAKE N., SAHU K., BENNETT D.P., WYRZYKOWSKI L., SOSZYNSKI I., SZYMANSKI M.K., KUBIAK M., PIETRZYNSKI G., SZEWCZYK O., ULACZYK K. (The OGLE Collaboration), ALLEN W., CHRISTIE G.W., DEPOY D.L., GAUDI B.S., HAN C., LEE C.-U., McCORMICK J., NATUSCH T., PARK B.-G., POGGE R.W. (The {mu}FUN Collaboration), ALLAN A., BODE M.F., BRAMICH D.M., BURGDORF M.J., DOMINIK M., FRASER S.N., KERINS E., MOTTRAM C., SNODGRASS C., STEELE I.A., STREET R., TSAPRAS Y. (The RoboNet Collaboration), ABE F., BOND I.A., BOTZLER C.S., FUKUI A., FURUSAWA K., HEARNSHAW J.B., ITOW Y., KAMIYA K., KILMARTIN P.M., KORPELA A., LIN W., LING C.H., MASUDA K., MATSUBARA Y., MURAKI Y., NAGAYA M., OHNISHI K., OKUMURA T., PERROTT Y.C., RATTENBURY N., SAITO T., SAKO T., SKULJAN L., SULLIVAN D.J., SUMI T., SWEATMAN W.L., TRISTRAM P.J., YOCK P.C.M. (The MOA Collaboration), ALBROW M., BEAULIEU J.P., COUTURES C., CALITZ H., CALDWELL J., FOUQUE P., MARTIN R., WILLIAMS A. (The PLANET Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

Parallax is the most fundamental technique for measuring distances to astronomical objects. Although terrestrial parallax was pioneered over 2000 years ago by Hipparchus (ca. 140 B.C.E.) to measure the distance to the Moon, the baseline of the Earth is so small that terrestrial parallax can generally only be applied to objects in the Solar System. However, there exists a class of extreme gravitational microlensing events in which the effects of terrestrial parallax can be readily detected and so permit the measurement of the distance, mass, and transverse velocity of the lens. Here we report observations of the first such extreme microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-224, from which we infer that the lens is a brown dwarf of mass M = 0.056±0.004 M☉, with a distance of 525±40 pc and a transverse velocity of 113±21 km/s. The velocity places the lens in the thick disk, making this the lowest-mass thick-disk brown dwarf detected so far. Follow-up observations may allow one to observe the light from the brown dwarf itself, thus serving as an important constraint for evolutionary models of these objects and potentially opening a new window on substellar objects. The low a priori probability of detecting a thick-disk brown dwarf in this event, when combined with additional evidence from other observations, suggests that old substellar objects may be more common than previously assumed.

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Journal keyword(s): astrometry - gravitational lensing - stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs

Simbad objects: 3

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Number of rows : 3
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 OGLE-2007-BLG-224 * 08 05 41.0 -28 45 36           FV 28 0
2 NAME Galactic Center reg 17 45 39.60213 -29 00 22.0000           ~ 16269 0
3 NAME Galactic Bulge reg ~ ~           ~ 4794 0

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