2025AJ....170..310V


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2025AJ....170..310V - Astron. J., 170, 310 (2025/December-0)

MOA-2010-BLG-328: Keck and HST Expose the Limits of Occams Razor in Microlensing.

VANDOROU A., BENNETT D.P., BEAULIEU J.-P., BHATTACHARYA A., BLACKMAN J.W., BOND I.A., COLE A.A., KOSHIMOTO N., RANC C., REKTSINI N.E. and TERRY S.K.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present high-resolution follow-up data of the microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-328, using Keck and the Hubble Space Telescope. Keck data, taken 8 yr after the event, reveal a strong lens detection enabling measurement of lens flux and source-lens relative proper motion. We find μrel,Hel = 4.07 ± 0.34 mas yr–1, with the lens ∼10 times fainter than the source. The lens was very faint in the Hubble passbands, and the small ∼35 mas lens-source separation made its detection difficult. However, we estimated lens magnitudes in Hubble bands by constraining its location to match the Keck K-band detection. K. Furusawa et al. reported a degenerate light curve, with viable models including microlensing parallax and lens orbital motion, or xallarap. We attempt to break this degeneracy by remodeling the event with constraints from high-resolution imaging, but find none of their models fit. Instead, fitting the follow-up data requires microlensing parallax, lens orbital motion, and a magnified binary companion to the host, with xallarap. The high-resolution data do break the “ecliptic degeneracy” common in Galactic bulge microlensing events with parallax signals. Models omitting any of these effects are excluded. However, a new degeneracy allows different combinations of parallax, orbital motion, xallarap, and source companion magnification to explain the light curve. These require either a nearby late M dwarf host or a more distant early M dwarf host, indistinguishable with NIR data alone.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Exoplanets - Exoplanet astronomy - Gravitational microlensing - High-resolution microlensing event imaging - Microlensing parallax - Lens orbital motion - Binary source microlensing - Binary lens microlensing

Simbad objects: 6

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Number of rows : 6
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-2005-BLG-071 * 17 50 09.77 -34 40 23.5           ~ 62 1
2 MOA 2010-BLG-328 * 17 57 59.120 -30 42 54.63           ~ 14 0
3 MOA 2012-BLG-288 * 18 05 57.720 -27 42 43.20           ~ 19 0
4 MOA 2010-BLG-477 * 18 06 07.440 -31 27 16.12           ~ 18 1
5 MOA 2007-BLG-192 * 18 08 03.798 -27 09 00.27           ~ 56 1
6 NAME Galactic Bulge reg ~ ~           ~ 4794 0

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