Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing
Abstract
We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 Spitzer microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax measurements, we find that the lens of OGLE-2015-BLG-1268 is very likely a brown dwarf. Assuming that the source star lies behind the same amount of dust as the Bulge red clump, we find the lens is a 457 M J brown dwarf at 5.91.0 kpc. The lens of of the second event, OGLE-2015-BLG-0763, is a 0.500.04 M star at 6.91.0 kpc. We show that the probability to definitively measure the mass of isolated microlenses is dramatically increased once simultaneous ground- and space-based observations are conducted.
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