- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/51/175
- Title:
- OGLE-II DIA microlensing events
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/51/175
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of microlensing events discovered in the Difference Image Analysis (DIA) of the OGLE-II images collected during three observing seasons, 1997-1999. 4424 light curves pass our criteria on the presence of a brightening episode on top of a constant baseline. Among those, 512 candidate microlensing events were selected visually. We designed an automated procedure, which unambiguously selects up to 237 best events. Including eight candidate events recovered by other means, a total of 520 light curves are presented in this work.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/216/12
- Title:
- OGLE-III Galactic bulge microlensing events
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/216/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and study the largest and most comprehensive catalog of microlensing events ever constructed. The sample of standard microlensing events comprises 3718 unique events from 2001-2009 with 1409 events that had not been detected before in real-time by the Early Warning System of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. The search pipeline uses machine learning algorithms to help find rare phenomena among 150 million objects and to derive the detection efficiency. Applications of the catalog can be numerous, from analyzing individual events to large statistical studies of the Galactic mass, kinematics distributions, and planetary abundances. We derive maps of the mean Einstein ring crossing time of events spanning 31 deg^2^ toward the Galactic center and compare the observed distributions with the most recent models. We find good agreement within the observed region and we see the signature of the tilt of the bar in the microlensing data. However, the asymmetry of the mean timescales seems to rise more steeply than predicted, indicating either a somewhat different orientation of the bar or a larger bar width. The map of events with sources in the Galactic bulge shows a dependence of the mean timescale on the Galactic latitude, signaling an increasing contribution from disk lenses closer to the plane relative to the height of the disk. Our data present a perfect set for comparing and enhancing new models of the central parts of the Milky Way and creating a three-dimensional picture of the Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/636/A20
- Title:
- OGLE-III parallax events with Gaia DR2
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/636/A20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Context. Gravitational microlensing is sensitive to compact-object lenses in the Milky Way, including white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes, and could potentially probe a wide range of stellar-remnant masses. However, the mass of the lens can be determined only in very limited cases, due to missing information on both source and lens distances and their proper motions. Aims. Our aim is to improve the mass estimates in the annual parallax microlensing events found in the eight years of OGLE-III observations towards the Galactic Bulge with the use of Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2). Methods. We use Gaia DR2 data on distances and proper motions of non-blended sources and recompute the masses of lenses in parallax events. We also identify new events in that sample which are likely to have dark lenses; the total number of such events is now 18. Results. The derived distribution of masses of dark lenses is consistent with a continuous distribution of stellar-remnant masses. A mass gap between neutron star and black hole masses in the range between 2 and 5 solar masses is not favoured by our data, unless black holes receive natal kicks above 20-80km/s. We present eight candidates for objects with masses within the putative mass gap, including a spectacular multi-peak parallax event with mass of 2.4_-1.3_^+1.9^M_{sun}_ located just at 600pc. The absence of an observational mass gap between neutron stars and black holes, or conversely the evidence of black hole natal kicks if a mass gap is assumed, can inform future supernova modelling efforts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/3012
- Title:
- OGLE-III Parallax microlensing events
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/3012
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Most stellar remnants so far have been found in binary systems, where they interact with matter from their companions. Isolated neutron stars and black holes are difficult to find as they are dark, yet they are predicted to exist in our Galaxy in vast numbers. We explored the OGLE-III data base of 150 million objects observed in years 2001-2009 and found 59 microlensing events exhibiting a parallax effect due to the Earth's motion around the Sun. Combining parallax and brightness measurements from microlensing light curves with expected proper motions in the Milky Way, we identified 13 microlensing events which are consistent with having a white dwarf, neutron star or a black hole lens and we estimated their masses and distances. The most massive of our black hole candidates has 9.3M_{sun}_ and is at a distance of 2.4kpc. The distribution of masses of our candidates indicates a continuum in mass distribution with no mass gap between neutron stars and black holes. We also present predictions on how such events will be observed by the astrometric Gaia mission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/636/240
- Title:
- OGLE II microlensing parameters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/636/240
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a measurement of the microlensing optical depth toward the Galactic bulge based on 4 years of the OGLE-II survey. We consider only bright sources in the extended red clump giant (RCG) region of the color-magnitude diagram, in 20 bulge fields covering ~5deg^2^ between 0{deg}<l<3{deg} and -4{deg}<b<-2{deg}. Using a sample of 32 events we find {tau}=2.55x10^-6^ at (l,b)=(1.16{deg},-2.75{deg}).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/262
- Title:
- OGLE/KMTnet VI bands photomerty of OGLE-2019-BLG-0551
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/262
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-cadence observations of the Galactic bulge by the microlensing surveys led to the discovery of a handful of extremely short-timescale microlensing events that can be attributed to free-floating or wide-orbit planets. Here, we report the discovery of another strong free-floating planet candidate, which was found from the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0551. The light curve of the event is characterized by a very short duration (<~3days) and a very small amplitude (<~0.1mag). From modeling of the light curve, we find that the Einstein timescale, t_E_=0.381{+/-}0.017day, is much shorter, and the angular Einstein radius, {theta}_E_=4.35{+/-}0.34{mu}mas, is much smaller than those of typical lensing events produced by stellar-mass lenses (t_E_~20days, {theta}_E_~0.3mas), indicating that the lens is very likely to be a planetary-mass object. We conduct an extensive search for possible signatures of a companion star in the light curve of the event, finding no significant evidence for the putative host star. For the first time, we also demonstrate that the angular Einstein radius of the lens does not depend on blending in the low-magnification events with strong finite source effects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/50/1
- Title:
- OGLE microlensing events in Galactic Bulge
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/50/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Catalog of microlensing events detected toward the Galactic bulge in three observing seasons, 1997-1999, during the OGLE-II microlensing survey. The search for microlensing events was performed using a database of about 4x10^9^ photometric measurements of about 20.5 million stars from the Galactic bulge. The Catalog comprises 214 microlensing events found in the fields covering about 11 square degrees on the sky and distributed in different parts of the Galactic bulge. The sample includes 20 binary microlensing events, 14 of them are caustic crossing. In one case a double star is likely lensed. We present distribution of the basic parameters of microlensing events and show preliminary rate of microlensing in different regions of the Galactic bulge. The latter reveals clear dependence on the Galactic coordinates. The dependence on l indicates that the majority of lenses toward the Galactic bulge are located in the Galactic bar. Models of the Galactic bar seem to reasonably predict the observed spatial distribution of microlensing events in the Galactic bulge. All data presented in the Catalog and photometry of all events are available from the OGLE Internet archive.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/270
- Title:
- OGLE, MOA & KMTNet RI light curve of KMT-2019-BLG-1715
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/270
- Date:
- 16 Mar 2022 00:06:48
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the gravitational microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-1715, the light curve of which shows two short-term anomalies from a caustic-crossing binary-lensing light curve: one with a large deviation and the other with a small deviation. We identify five pairs of solutions, in which the anomalies are explained by adding an extra lens or source component in addition to the base binary-lens model. We resolve the degeneracies by applying a method in which the measured flux ratio between the first and second source stars is compared with the flux ratio deduced from the ratio of the source radii. Applying this method leaves a single pair of viable solutions, in both of which the major anomaly is generated by a planetary-mass third body of the lens, and the minor anomaly is generated by a faint second source. A Bayesian analysis indicates that the lens comprises three masses: a planet-mass object with ~2.6M_J_ and binary stars of K and M dwarfs lying in the galactic disk. We point out the possibility that the lens is the blend, and this can be verified by conducting high-resolution follow-up imaging for the resolution of the lens from the source.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/74
- Title:
- Optical and IR photometry of OGLE-2017-BLG-0406
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/74
- Date:
- 10 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery and analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0406, which was observed both from the ground and by the Spitzer satellite in a solar orbit. At high magnification, the anomaly in the light curve was densely observed by ground-based-survey and follow-up groups, and it was found to be explained by a planetary lens with a planet/host mass ratio of q=7.0x10^-4^ from the light-curve modeling. The ground-only and Spitzer-"only" data each provide very strong one-dimensional (1D) constraints on the 2D microlens parallax vector {pi}_E_. When combined, these yield a precise measurement of {pi}_E_ and of the masses of the host M_host_=0.56{+/-}0.07M_{sun} and planet M_planet_=0.41{+/-}0.05M_Jup_. The system lies at a distance D_L_=5.2{+/-}0.5 kpc from the Sun toward the Galactic bulge, and the host is more likely to be a disk population star according to the kinematics of the lens. The projected separation of the planet from the host is a_{perp}_=3.5{+/-}0.3au (i.e., just over twice the snow line). The Galactic-disk kinematics are established in part from a precise measurement of the source proper motion based on OGLE-IV data. By contrast, the Gaia proper-motion measurement of the source suffers from a catastrophic 10{sigma} error.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/540/A132
- Title:
- Optical follow-up of Q0957+561 in 2005-2010
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/540/A132
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The optical variability database of the two images (A and B) of the gravitationally lensed quasar Q0957+561 is based on frames taken with the Liverpool Robotic Telescope in the 2005-2010 period, as part of the Liverpool Quasar Lens Monitoring (LQLM) project (Goicoechea et al. 2010AdAst2010E..29G). A crowded-field photometry pipeline produced instrumental fluxes of both quasar images, and only frames with signal-to-noise ratio above 80 over Q0957+561A were passed through a transformation pipeline. This pipeline transformed instrumental magnitudes into SDSS magnitudes (the calibration-correction scheme is described in Appendix A of Shalyapin et al. (2008A&A...492..401S) and the main text of the paper). We also turned SDSS magnitudes into physical fluxes using suitable conversion equations (SDSS Photometric Flux Calibration 2007, http://www.sdss.org/dr7/algorithms/fluxcal.html). Table 1 contains g-band fluxes for 357 different nights, while Table 2 includes r-band fluxes for 371 observation nights.
