Combined Analysis of the Binary-Lens Caustic-Crossing Event MACHO 98-SMC-1

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1999-07-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907247v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

29 pages + 9 figures + 2 tables, submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/308561

We fit the data for the binary-lens microlensing event MACHO 98-SMC-1 from 5 different microlensing collaborations and find two distinct solutions characterized by binary separation d and mass ratio q: (d,q)=(0.54,0.50) and (d,q)=(3.65,0.36), where d is in units of the Einstein radius. However, the relative proper motion of the lens is very similar in the two solutions, 1.30 km/s/kpc and 1.48 km/s/kpc, thus confirming that the lens is in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The close binary can be either rotating or approximately static but the wide binary must be rotating at close its maximum allowed rate to be consistent with all the data. We measure limb-darkening coefficients for five bands ranging from I to V. As expected, these progressively decrease with rising wavelength. This is the first measurement of limb darkening for a metal-poor A star.

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