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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 752, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/82
Keywords
binaries: general; Galaxy: bulge; gravitational lensing: micro
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Funding
- European Research Council under the European Community [246678]
- JSPS
- Global COE Program of Nagoya University
- MEXT of Japan
- Qatar Foundation via QNRF [NPRP-09-476-1-78]
- [JSPS17340074]
- [JSPS18253002]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23340044, 23654082, 22403003, 23340064, 23540339] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1009621] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H002391/1, ST/J001465/1, ST/G001987/1, PP/E001149/1, PP/E002137/1, ST/J001651/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/J001465/1, ST/H002391/1, PP/E001149/1, ST/G001987/1, ST/J001651/1, PP/E002137/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We report the extremely high-magnification (A > 1000) binary microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514. We obtained good coverage around the double peak structure in the light curve via follow-up observations from different observatories. The binary lens model that includes the effects of parallax (known orbital motion of the Earth) and orbital motion of the lens yields a binary lens mass ratio of q = 0.321 +/- 0.007 and a projected separation of s = 0.072 +/- 0.001 in units of the Einstein radius. The parallax parameters allow us to determine the lens distance D-L = 3.11 +/- 0.39 kpc and total mass M-L = 1.40 +/- 0.18 M-circle dot; this leads to the primary and secondary components having masses of M-1 = 1.06 +/- 0.13 M-circle dot and M-2 = 0.34 +/- 0.04 M-circle dot, respectively. The parallax model indicates that the binary lens system is likely constructed by the main-sequence stars. On the other hand, we used a Bayesian analysis to estimate probability distributions by the model that includes the effects of xallarap (possible orbital motion of the source around a companion) and parallax (q = 0.270 +/- 0.005, s = 0.083 +/- 0.001). The primary component of the binary lens is relatively massive, with M-1 = 0.9(-0.3)(+4.6) M-circle dot and it is at a distance of D-L = 2.6(-0.9)(+3.8) kpc. Given the secure mass ratio measurement, the companion mass is therefore M-2 = 0.2(-0.1)(+1.2) M-circle dot. The xallarap model implies that the primary lens is likely a stellar remnant, such as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
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