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dc.contributor.authorKains, Noé
dc.contributor.authorCalamida, A.
dc.contributor.authorSahu, K. C.
dc.contributor.authorCasertano, S.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, J.
dc.contributor.authorUdalski, A.
dc.contributor.authorZoccali, M.
dc.contributor.authorBond, H.
dc.contributor.authorAlbrow, M.
dc.contributor.authorBond, I.
dc.contributor.authorBrown, T.
dc.contributor.authorDominik, M.
dc.contributor.authorFryer, C.
dc.contributor.authorLivio, M.
dc.contributor.authorMao, S.
dc.contributor.authorRejkuba, M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-06T10:30:08Z
dc.date.available2017-07-06T10:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2017-07-14
dc.identifier.citationKains , N , Calamida , A , Sahu , K C , Casertano , S , Anderson , J , Udalski , A , Zoccali , M , Bond , H , Albrow , M , Bond , I , Brown , T , Dominik , M , Fryer , C , Livio , M , Mao , S & Rejkuba , M 2017 , ' Microlensing constraints on the mass of single stars from HST astrometric measurements ' , Astrophysical Journal , vol. 843 , no. 2 , 145 . https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa78eben
dc.identifier.issn0004-637X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250441512
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 1698d0c6-c43e-490b-b8ed-48cf7eb8d4c9
dc.identifier.otherBibCode: 2017arXiv170604196K
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85025094397
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000405549400006
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3202-0343/work/75996694
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11158
dc.descriptionNK acknowledges support from HST grants GO- 12586, GO-13057, GO-13463 (PI: Sahu) and AR-14571 (PI: Kains). The OGLE project has received funding from the National Science Centre, Poland, grant MAESTRO 2014/14/A/ST9/00121 to AU. MZ acknowledges support by the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism’s Millennium Science Initiative through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS), by Fondecyt Regular 1150345 and by the BASAL-CATA Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies PFB-06.en
dc.description.abstractWe report on the first results from a large-scale observing campaign aiming to use astrometric microlensing to detect and place limits on the mass of single objects, including stellar remnants. We used the Hubble Space Telescope to monitor stars near the Galactic Center for 3 years, and we measured the brightness and positions of ∼2 million stars at each observing epoch. In addition to this, we monitored the same pointings using the VIMOS imager on the Very Large Telescope. The stars we monitored include several bright microlensing events observed from the ground by the OGLE collaboration. In this paper, we present the analysis of our photometric and astrometric measurements for 6 of these events, and derive mass constraints for the lens in each of these. Although these constraints are limited by the photometric precision of ground-based data, and our ability to determine the lens distance, we were able to constrain the size of the Einstein ring radius thanks to our precise astrometric measurements, the first routine measurements of this type from a large-scale observing program. This demonstrates the power of astrometric microlensing as a tool to constrain the masses of stars, stellar remnants, and, in the future, of extrasolar planets, using precise ground- and space-based observations.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAstrophysical Journalen
dc.rights© 2017, American Astronomical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa78eben
dc.subjectAstrometryen
dc.subjectGravitational lensing: microen
dc.subjectStars: black holesen
dc.subjectStars: generalen
dc.subjectQB Astronomyen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQBen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleMicrolensing constraints on the mass of single stars from HST astrometric measurementsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Scienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa78eb
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017arXiv170604196Ken


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