Resolving the Nature of the LMC Microlensing Event LMC-5

A.J. Drake (PUC/Princeton); K.H. Cook (LLNL); S.C. Keller (ANU)

arxiv: astro-ph/0404285 · v2 · submitted 2004-04-14 · 🌌 astro-ph

Resolving the Nature of the LMC Microlensing Event LMC-5

A.J. Drake (PUC/Princeton) , K.H. Cook (LLNL) , S.C. Keller (ANU) This is my paper

classification 🌌 astro-ph

keywords eventmicrolensingdisklmc-5motionproperstaranalysis

0 comments

read the original abstract

We present the results from an analysis of Hubble Space Telescope High Resolution Camera data for the Large Magellanic Cloud microlensing event MACHO-LMC-5. By determining the parallax and proper motion of this object we find that the lens is an M dwarf star at a distance of 578(+65/-53)pc with a proper motion of 21.39 +/- 0.04 mas/yr. Based on the kinematics and location of this star it more likely to be part of the Galactic thick disk than thin disk population. We confirm that the microlensing event LMC-5 is a jerk-parallax event.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

Stellar microlensing surveys as a probe of Primordial Black Holes: status and prospects
astro-ph.GA 2026-02 unverdicted novelty 2.0

Stellar microlensing surveys exclude compact objects between 10^{-11} and 10^4 solar masses from making up all dark matter under standard assumptions.