OGLE-2017-BLG-1186: First application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing

S. S. Li*, W. Zang, A. Udalski, Y. Shvartzvald, D. Huber, C. U. Lee, T. Sumi, A. Gould, S. Mao, P. Fouqué, T. Wang, S. Dong, U. G. Jørgensen, A. Cole, P. Mróz, M. K. Szymanski, J. Skowron, R. Poleski, I. Soszynski, P. PietrukowiczS. Kozłowski, K. Ulaczyk, K. A. Rybicki, P. Iwanek, J. C. Yee, S. Calchi Novati, C. A. Beichman, G. Bryden, S. Carey, B. S. Gaudi, C. B. Henderson, W. Zhu, M. D. Albrow, S. J. Chung, C. Han, K. H. Hwang, Y. K. Jung, Y. H. Ryu, I. G. Shin, S. M. Cha, D. J. Kim, H. W. Kim, S. L. Kim, D. J. Lee, Y. Lee, B. G. Park, R. W. Pogge, I. A. Bond, F. Abe, R. Barry, D. P. Bennett, A. Bhattacharya, M. Donachie, A. Fukui, Y. Hirao, Y. Itow, I. Kondo, N. Koshimoto, M. C.A. Li, Y. Matsubara, Y. Muraki, S. Miyazaki, M. Nagakane, C. Ranc, N. J. Rattenbury, H. Suematsu, D. J. Sullivan, D. Suzuki, P. J. Tristram, A. Yonehara, G. Christie, J. Drummond, J. Green, S. Hennerley, T. Natusch, I. Porritt, E. Bachelet, D. Maoz, R. A. Street, Y. Tsapras, V. Bozza, M. Dominik, M. Hundertmark, N. Peixinho, S. Sajadian, M. J. Burgdorf, D. F. Evans, R. Figuera Jaimes, Y. I. Fujii, L. K. Haikala, C. Helling, T. Henning, T. C. Hinse, L. Mancini, P. Longa-Peña, S. Rahvar, M. Rabus, J. Skottfelt, C. Snodgrass, J. Southworth, E. Unda-Sanzana, C. von Essen, J. P. Beaulieu, J. Blackman, K. Hill

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Abstract

We present the analysis of the event OGLE-2017-BLG-1186 from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. This is a remarkable microlensing event because its source is photometrically bright and variable, which makes it possible to perform an asteroseismic analysis using ground-based data. We find that the source star is an oscillating red giant with average timescale of ∼9 d. The asteroseismic analysis also provides us source properties including the source angular size (∼27 μas) and distance (∼11.5 kpc), which are essential for inferring the properties of the lens. When fitting the light curve, we test the feasibility of Gaussian processes (GPs) in handling the correlated noise caused by the variable source. We find that the parameters from the GP model are generally more loosely constrained than those from the traditional χ2 minimization method. We note that this event is the first microlensing system for which asteroseismology and GPs have been used to account for the variable source. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax measured, we find that the lens is likely a ∼0.045 M brown dwarf at distance ∼9.0 kpc, or a ∼0.073 M ultracool dwarf at distance ∼9.8 kpc. Combining the estimated lens properties with a Bayesian analysis using a Galactic model, we find a ∼ 35 per cent probability for the lens to be a bulge object and ∼ 65 per cent to be a background disc object.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3308-3323
Number of pages16
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume488
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Sep 2019

Funding

FundersFunder number
Italian Minister of Instruction, University and Research
National Research Foundation of Korea
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
Universities Space Research Association
University of Tasmania
ANR-18-CE31-0002
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
Fundação para a Ciência e a TecnologiaUID/Multi/00611/2013
European Regional Development FundPOCI-01-0145-FEDER-006922
National Science FoundationJP17H02871, JSPS24253004, JSPS15H00781, 1500811, AST-1516842, JSPS23340064, AST-1717000, JSPS26247023, JP16H06287
Narodowe Centrum NaukiMAESTRO 2014/14/A/ST9/00121
National Natural Science Foundation of China11761131004, 11821303
Jet Propulsion Laboratory2017R1A4A1015178, 11573003
Australian Research CouncilLE110100055
Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftWA 1047/11-1
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science18H04582
Agence Nationale de la RechercheANR-18-CE31-0002

    Keywords

    • Asteroseismology
    • Gravitational lensing: micro
    • Stars: fundamental parameters
    • Stars: oscillations

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