OGLE, KMTNet & Spitzer EWS2017-BLG-1038 light curve

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We report the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1038, observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, Korean Microlensing Telescope Network, and Spitzer telescopes. The event is caused by a giant source star in the Galactic Bulge passing over a large resonant binary-lens caustic. The availability of space-based data allows the full set of physical parameters to be calculated. However, there exists an eightfold degeneracy in the parallax measurement. The four best solutions correspond to very-low-mass binaries near (M_1_=170_-50_^+40^M_J_ and M_2_=110_-30_^+20^M_J_), or well below (M_1_=22.5_-0.4_^+0.7^M_J_ and M_2_=13.3_-0.3_^+0.4^M_J_) the boundary between stars and brown dwarfs. A conventional analysis, with scaled uncertainties for Spitzer data, implies a very-low-mass brown-dwarf binary lens at a distance of 2kpc. Compensating for systematic Spitzer errors using a Gaussian process model suggests that a higher mass M-dwarf binary at 6kpc is equally likely. A Bayesian comparison based on a galactic model favors the larger-mass solutions. We demonstrate how this degeneracy can be resolved within the next 10years through infrared adaptive-optics imaging with a 40m class telescope.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51640102
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Provenance
Creator Malpas A.; Albrow M.D.; Yee J.C.; Gould A.; Udalski A.; Martin A.H.,Beichman C.A.; Bryden G.; Novati S.C.; Carey S.; Henderson C.B.; Gaudi B.S.,Shvartzvald Y.; Zhu W.; Cha S.-M.; Chung S.-J.; Han C.; Hwang K.-H.,Jung Y.K.; Kim D.-J.; Kim H.-W.; Kim S.-L.; Lee C.-U.; Lee D.-J.; Lee Y.,Park B.-G.; Pogge R.W.; Ryu Y.-H.; Shin I.-G.; Zang W.; Iwanek P.,Kozlowski S.; Mroz P.; Pietrukowicz P.; Poleski R.; Rybicki K.A.,Skowron J.; Soszynski I.; Szymanski M.K.; Ulaczyk K.; Spitzer team,KMTNet Collaboration; OGLE Collaboration
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2022
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysical Processes; Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy