OGLE-2015-BLG-0196: Ground-based Gravitational Microlens Parallax Confirmed By Space-Based Observation
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/ Authors
C. Han, A. Udalski, A. Gould, Wei Zhu, M. K. Szymański, I. Soszyński, J. Skowron, P. Mróz, R. Poleski, P. Pietrukowicz
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S. Kozłowski, K. Ulaczyk, M. Pawlak, J. C. Yee, C. Beichman, S. Calchi Novati, S. Carey, C. Bryden, M. Fausnaugh, B. S. Gaudi, Calen B. Henderson, Y. Shvartzvald, B. Wibking
/ Abstract
In this paper, we present the analysis of the binary gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0196. The event lasted for almost a year and the light curve exhibited significant deviations from the lensing model based on the rectilinear lens-source relative motion, enabling us to measure the microlens parallax. The ground-based microlens parallax is confirmed by the data obtained from space-based microlens observations using the {\it Spitzer} telescope. By additionally measuring the angular Einstein radius from the analysis of the resolved caustic crossing, the physical parameters of the lens are determined up to the two-fold degeneracy: $u_0<0$ and $u_0>0$ solutions caused by the well-known "ecliptic" degeneracy. It is found that the binary lens is composed of two M dwarf stars with similar masses $M_1=0.38\pm 0.04\ M_\odot$ ($0.50\pm 0.05\ M_\odot)$ and $M_2=0.38\pm 0.04\ M_\odot$ ($0.55\pm 0.06\ M_\odot$) and the distance to the lens is $D_{\rm L}=2.77\pm 0.23$ kpc ($3.30\pm 0.29$ kpc). Here the physical parameters out and in the parenthesis are for the $u_0<0$ and $u_0>0$ solutions, respectively.