Lens parameters for Gaia18cbf - a long gravitational microlensing event in the Galactic plane

Kruszyńska, K.; Wyrzykowski, Ł.; Rybicki, K. A.; Maskoliūnas, M.; Bachelet, E.; Rattenbury, N.; Mróz, P.; Zieliński, P.; Howil, K.; Kaczmarek, Z.; Hodgkin, S. T.; Ihanec, N.; Gezer, I.; Gromadzki, M.; Mikołajczyk, P.; Stankevičiūtė, A.; Čepas, V.; Pakštienė, E.; Šiškauskaitė, K.; Zdanavičius, J.; Bozza, V.; Dominik, M.; Figuera Jaimes, R.; Fukui, A.; Hundertmark, M.; Narita, N.; Street, R.; Tsapras, Y.; Bronikowski, M.; Jabłońska, M.; Jabłonowska, A.; Ziółkowska, O.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics

Fecha de publicación:
6
2022
Número de autores
32
Número de autores del IAC
2
Número de citas
5
Número de citas referidas
3
Descripción
Context. The timescale of a microlensing event scales as a square root of a lens mass. Therefore, long-lasting events are important candidates for massive lenses, including black holes.
Aims: Here, we present the analysis of the Gaia18cbf microlensing event reported by the Gaia Science Alerts system. It exhibited a long timescale and features that are common for the annual microlensing parallax effect. We deduce the parameters of the lens based on the derived best fitting model.
Methods: We used photometric data collected by the Gaia satellite as well as the follow-up data gathered by the ground-based observatories. We investigated the range of microlensing models and used them to derive the most probable mass and distance to the lens using a Galactic model as a prior. Using a known mass-brightness relation, we determined how likely it is that the lens is a main-sequence (MS) star.
Results: This event is one of the longest ever detected, with the Einstein timescale of tE = 491.41−84.94+128.31 days for the best solution and tE = 453.74−105.74+178.69 days for the second best. Assuming Galaxy priors, this translates to the most probable lens masses of ML = 2.65−1.48+5.09 M⊙ and ML = 1.71−1.06+3.78 M⊙, respectively. The limits on the blended light suggest that this event was most likely not caused by a MS star, but rather by a dark remnant of stellar evolution.

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