2010ApJ...723..797H

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2010ApJ...723..797H - Astrophys. J., 723, 797-802 (2010/November-1)

OGLE-2005-BLG-153: microlensing discovery and characterization of a very low mass binary.

HWANG K.-H., UDALSKI A., HAN C., RYU Y.-H., BOND I.A., BEAULIEU J.-P., DOMINIK M., HORNE K., GOULD A., GAUDI B.S., KUBIAK M., SZYMANSKI M.K., PIETRZYNSKI G., SOSZYNSKI I., SZEWCZYK O., ULACZYK K., WYRZYKOWSKI L. (The OGLE Collaboration), ABE F., BOTZLER C.S., HEARNSHAW J.B., ITOW Y., KAMIYA K., KILMARTIN P.M., MASUDA K., MATSUBARA Y., MOTOMURA M., MURAKI Y., NAKAMURA S., OHNISHI K., OKADA C., RATTENBURY N., SAITO T., SAKO T., SASAKI M., SULLIVAN D.J., SUMI T., TRISTRAM P.J., WOOD J.N., YOCK P.C.M., YOSHIOKA T. (The MOA Collaboration), ALBROW M., BENNETT D.P., BRAMICH D.M., BRILLANT S., CALDWELL J.A.R., CALITZ J.J., CASSAN A., COOK K.H., CORRALES E., COUTURES C., DESORT M., DIETERS S., DOMINIS D., DONATOWICZ J., FOUQUE P., GREENHILL J., HARPSOE K., HILL K., HOFFMAN M., JORGENSEN U.G., KANE S., KUBAS D., MARTIN R., MARQUETTE J.-B., MEINTJES P., MENZIES J., POLLARD K., SAHU K., STEELE I., VINTER C., WAMBSGANSS J., WILLIAMS A., WOLLER K., BURGDORF M., SNODGRASS C., BODE M. (The PLANET/RoboNet Collaboration), DEPOY D.L., LEE C.-U., PARK B.-G., POGGE R.W. (The {mu}FUN Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

The mass function and statistics of binaries provide important diagnostics of the star formation process. Despite this importance, the mass function at low masses remains poorly known due to observational difficulties caused by the faintness of the objects. Here we report the microlensing discovery and characterization of a binary lens composed of very low mass stars just above the hydrogen-burning limit. From the combined measurements of the Einstein radius and microlens parallax, we measure the masses of the binary components of 0.10±0.01 M☉ and 0.09±0.01 M☉. This discovery demonstrates that microlensing will provide a method to measure the mass function of all Galactic populations of very low mass binaries that is independent of the biases caused by the luminosity of the population.

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Journal keyword(s): binaries: general - gravitational lensing: micro

Simbad objects: 5

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Number of rows : 5
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 M 31 AGN 00 42 44.330 +41 16 07.50 4.86 4.36 3.44     ~ 13622 1
2 NAME SMC G 00 52 38.0 -72 48 01   2.79 2.2     ~ 12317 1
3 NAME LMC G 05 23 34.6 -69 45 22     0.4     ~ 19090 0
4 OGLE-2005-BUL-153 * 18 04 17.30 -28 40 49.3           ~ 5 0
5 NAME Galactic Bulge reg ~ ~           ~ 4794 0

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