ABSTRACT We present the first space-based microlens parallax measurement of an isolated star. From the striking differences in the lightcurve as seen from Earth and from Spitzer ( to the west), we ...infer a projected velocity , which strongly favors a lens in the Galactic Disk with mass and distance . An ensemble of such measurements drawn from our ongoing program could be used to measure the single-lens mass function including dark objects, and also is necessary for measuring the Galactic distribution of planets since the ensemble reflects the underlying Galactic distribution of microlenses. We study the application of the many ideas to break the four-fold degeneracy first predicted by Refsdal 50 years ago. We find that this degeneracy is clearly broken, but by two unanticipated mechanisms: a weak constraint on the orbital parallax from the ground-based data and a definitive measurement of the source proper motion.
ABSTRACT We present the discovery of the first Neptune analog exoplanet or super-Earth with a Neptune-like orbit, MOA-2013-BLG-605Lb. This planet has a mass similar to that of Neptune or a ...super-Earth and it orbits at 9 ∼ 14 times the expected position of the snow line, asnow, which is similar to Neptune's separation of 11 asnow from the Sun. The planet/host-star mass ratio is q = (3.6 0.7) × 10−4 and the projected separation normalized by the Einstein radius is s = 2.39 0.05. There are three degenerate physical solutions and two of these are due to a new type of degeneracy in the microlensing parallax parameters, which we designate "the wide degeneracy." The three models have (i) a Neptune-mass planet with a mass of orbiting a low-mass M-dwarf with a mass of , (ii) a mini-Neptune with orbiting a brown dwarf host with , and (iii) a super-Earth with orbiting a low-mass brown dwarf host with , which is slightly favored. The 3D planet-host separations are au, au, and au, which are , , or times larger than asnow for these models, respectively. Keck adaptive optics observations confirm that the lens is faint. This discovery suggests that low-mass planets with Neptune-like orbits are common. Therefore processes similar to the one that formed Neptune in our own solar system or cold super-Earths may be common in other solar systems.
We present the largest collection of δ Scuti-type stars in the Milky Way. Together with the recently published OGLE collection of δ Sct variables in the inner Galactic bulge, our sample consists of ...24 488 objects distributed along the Milky Way plane, over galactic longitudes ranging from about -170o to +60o. The collection data include the I- and V-band time-series photometry collected since 1997 during the OGLE-II, OGLE-III, and OGLE-IV surveys. We show the on-sky distribution of δ Sct stars in the Galactic bulge and disk, discuss their period, luminosity and amplitude distributions, present Petersen diagram for multimode pulsators, distinguish 34 δ Sct stars in eclipsing and ellipsoidal binary systems, and list probable members of globular clusters.
We have used photometric data on almost 91 000 fundamental-mode RR Lyr stars (type RRab) detected by the OGLE survey to investigate properties of old populations in the Milky Way. Based on their ...metallicity distributions, we demonstrate that the Galaxy is built from three distinct old components: halo, bulge, and disk. The distributions reach their maxima at approximately Fe/HJ95=-1.2 dex, -1.0 dex, and -0.6 dex on the Jurcsik's metallicity scale, respectively. We find that, very likely, the entire halo is formed from infalling dwarf galaxies. It is evident that halo stars penetrate the inner regions of the Galactic bulge. We estimate that about one-third of all RR Lyr stars within the bulge area belong in fact to the halo population. The whole old bulge is dominated by two populations, A and B, represented by a double sequence in the period-amplitude (Bailey) diagram. The boundary in iron abundance between the halo and the disk population is at about Fe/HJ95=-0.8 dex. Using Gaia DR2 for RRab stars in the disk area, we show that the observed dispersion of proper motions along the Galactic latitude decreases smoothly with the increasing metal content excluding a bump around Fe/HJ95=-1.0 dex.
Anomalous Cepheids (ACs) are metal-deficient, core-helium-burning pulsating stars with masses in the range 1.2-2.2 . Until recently, all known ACs were pure single-mode pulsators. The first candidate ...for an AC pulsating in more than one radial mode-OGLE-GAL-ACEP-091-was recently identified in the Milky Way based on the photometric database of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) survey. We analyze this object showing that it is actually a triple-mode pulsator. Its position in the Petersen diagram, the light-curve morphology quantified by Fourier coefficients, and absolute magnitudes derived from the Gaia parallax are consistent with the assumption that OGLE-GAL-ACEP-091 is an AC. Our grid of linear pulsation models indicates that OGLE-GAL-ACEP-091 is a 1.8 star with a metallicity of about Fe/H = −0.5 dex.
Context.
Besides the astrometric mission of the
Gaia
satellite, its repeated and high-precision measurements also serve as an all-sky photometric transient survey. The sudden brightenings of the ...sources are published as
Gaia
Photometric Science Alerts and are made publicly available, allowing the community to photometrically and spectroscopically follow up on the object.
Aims.
The goal of this paper is to analyze the nature and derive the basic parameters of Gaia18aen, a transient detected at the beginning of 2018. This object coincides with the position of the emission-line star WRAY 15-136. The brightening was classified as a “nova?” on the basis of a subsequent spectroscopic observation.
Methods.
We analyzed two spectra of Gaia18aen and collected the available photometry of the object covering the brightenings in 2018 and also the preceding and following periods of quiescence. Based on this observational data, we derived the parameters of Gaia18aen and discussed the nature of the object.
Results.
Gaia18aen is the first symbiotic star discovered by
Gaia
satellite. The system is an S-type symbiotic star and consists of an M giant of a slightly super-solar metallicity, where
T
eff
∼ 3500 K, a radius of ∼230
R
⊙
, and a high luminosity
L
∼ 7400
L
⊙
. The hot component is a hot white dwarf. We tentatively determined the orbital period of the system ∼487 d. The main outburst of Gaia18aen in 2018 was accompanied by a decrease in the temperature of the hot component. The first phase of the outburst was characterized by the high luminosity
L
∼ 27 000
L
⊙
, which remained constant for about three weeks after the optical maximum, later followed by the gradual decline of luminosity and increase of temperature. Several re-brightenings have been detected on the timescales of hundreds of days.
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ABSTRACT In this paper, we report the discovery of a binary composed of a brown dwarf (BD) and a low-mass M dwarf from observation of the microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-0257. The resolution of the ...very brief caustic crossing combined with the detection of subtle continuous deviation in the lensing light curve induced by the Earth's orbital motion enable us to precisely measure both the Einstein radius and the lens parallax , which are the two quantities needed to unambiguously determine the mass and distance to the lens. It is found that the companion is a substellar BD with a mass of ( ) and it is orbiting an M dwarf with a mass of . The binary is located at a distance of 1.25 0.13 kpc toward the Galactic bulge and the projected separation between the binary components is 0.61 0.07 au. The separation scaled by the mass of the host is . Based on the assumption that separations scale with masses, the discovered BD is located in the BD desert. With the growing sample of BDs in various environments, microlensing will provide a powerful probe of BDs in the Galaxy.
We report the discovery of a sub-Jupiter-mass planet orbiting beyond the snow line of an M dwarf most likely in the Galactic disk as part of the joint Spitzer and ground-based monitoring of planetary ...microlensing anomalies toward the Galactic bulge. Most of the microlensing parameters are strongly constrained by the light-curve modeling, and in particular there is a Spitzer-based measurement of the microlens parallax, πE. However, there are no caustic crossings, so the angular Einstein radius has only an upper limit based on the light-curve modeling alone. Additionally, the analysis leads us to identify eight degenerate configurations: the fourfold microlensing parallax degeneracy being doubled by a degeneracy in the caustic structure present at the level of the ground-based solutions. To calculate the physical parameters, and at the same time to break the parallax degeneracy, we make use of a series of arguments: the χ2 hierarchy, the Rich argument (stating that the small-parallax solution is more likely), and a prior Galactic model. The preferred configuration, favored by a likelihood ratio of at least 4000, is for a host at with mass , orbited by a Saturn-like planet with at projected separation , about 2.1 times beyond the system snow line. Therefore, it adds to the growing population of sub-Jupiter planets orbiting beyond the snow line of M dwarfs discovered by microlensing. Based on the rules of the real-time protocol for the selection of events to be followed up with Spitzer, this planet will not enter the sample for measuring the Galactic distribution of planets.
Abstract
We analyze the microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0173, which shows a small
perturbation at the end of the microlensing event caused by the primary lens. We
consider both binary lens and ...binary source models and explore their
degeneracies, some of which have not previously been recognized. There are two
families of binary lens solutions, one with a mass ratio
q
≈ 4 × 10
−4
and a separation
s
≈ 4.6, and the other with
q
≈ 0.015 and
s
≈ 0.22, i.e., both have companions in the
planetary regime. We search for solutions by using Bayesian analysis that
includes planet frequency as a prior and find that the
s
≈ 4.6 family is the preferred one with a
planet on an orbit of ∼10 au. The degeneracies arise from
a paucity of information on the anomaly, demonstrating that high-cadence
observations are essential for characterizing wide-orbit microlensing planets.
Hence, we predict that the planned
Wide-Field Infrared Survey
Telescope
microlensing survey will be less prone to these
degeneracies than the ongoing ground-based surveys. We discuss the known
low-mass, wide-orbit companions and notice that for the largest projected
separations the mass ratios are either high (consistent with brown dwarf
companions) or low (consistent with Uranus analogs), but intermediate mass
ratios (Jupiter analogs on wide orbits) have not been detected to date, despite
the fact that the sensitivity to such planets should be higher than that of
Uranus analogs. This is therefore tentative evidence of the existence of a
massive ice giant desert at wide separations. On the other hand, given their low
intrinsic detection sensitivity, Uranus analogs may be ubiquitous.
We present the first-ever collection of δ Scuti stars found over the entire area of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The sample consists of 2810 variables of which over 2600 objects belong to the ...SMC while the remaining stars are most likely members of the Milky Way's halo. The sample has been divided into 2733 single mode and 77 multimode pulsators. We provide observational parameters (pulsation periods, mean magnitudes, amplitudes, Fourier coefficients) of all δ Sct stars and the long-term I- and V-band time-series photometric measurements collected during the fourth phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-IV).
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