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arxiv 1208.2323 v2 pith:UIG27UUK submitted 2012-08-11 astro-ph.SR

Microlensig Binaries with Candidate Brown Dwarf Companions

I.-G. Shin , C. Han , A. Gould , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , M. Dominik , J.-P. Beaulieu , Y. Tsapras
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V. Bozza M. K. Szyma\'nski M. Kubiak I. Soszy\'nski G. Pietrzy\'nski R. Poleski K. Ulaczyk P. Pietrukowicz S. Koz{\l}owski J. Skowron {\L}. Wyrzykowski F. Abe D. P. Bennett I. A. Bond C. S. Botzler M. Freeman A. Fukui K. Furusawa F. Hayashi J. B. Hearnshaw S. Hosaka Y. Itow K. Kamiya P. M. Kilmartin S. Kobara A. Korpela W. Lin C. H. Ling S. Makita K. Masuda Y. Matsubara N. Miyake Y. Muraki M. Nagaya K. Nishimoto K. Ohnishi T. Okumura K. Omori Y. C. Perrott N. Rattenbury To. Saito L. Skuljan D. J. Sullivan D. Suzuki W. L. Sweatman P. J. Tristram K. Wada P. C. M. Yock G. W. Christie D. L. Depoy S. Dong A. Gal-Yam B. S. Gaudi L.-W. Hung J. Janczak S. Kaspi D. Maoz J. McCormick D. McGregor D. Moorhouse J. A. Mu\~noz T. Natusch C. Nelson R. W. Pogge T.-G. Tan D. Polishook Y. Shvartzvald A. Shporer G. Thornley U. Malamud J. C. Yee J.-Y. Choi Y.-K. Jung H. Park C.-U. Lee B.-G. Park J.-R. Koo D. Bajek D. M. Bramich P. Browne K. Horne S. Ipatov C. Snodgrass I. Steele R. Street K. A. Alsubai M. J. Burgdorf S. Calchi Novati P. Dodds S. Dreizler X.-S. Fang F. Grundahl C.-H. Gu S. Hardis K. Harps{\o}e T. C. Hinse M. Hundertmark J. Jessen-Hansen U. G. J{\o}rgensen N. Kains E. Kerins C. Liebig M. Lund M. Lundkvist L. Mancini M. Mathiasen A. Hornstrup M. T. Penny S. Proft S. Rahvar D. Ricci G. Scarpetta J. Skottfelt J. Southworth J. Surdej J. Tregloan-Reed O. Wertz F. Zimmer M. D. Albrow V. Batista S. Brillant J. A. R. Caldwell J. J. Calitz A. Cassan A. Cole K. H. Cook E. Corrales Ch. Coutures S. Dieters D. Dominis Prester J. Donatowicz P. Fouqu\'e J. Greenhill K. Hill M. Hoffman S. R. Kane D. Kubas J.-B. Marquette R. Martin P. Meintjes J. Menzies K. R. Pollard K. C. Sahu J. Wambsganss A. Williams C. Vinter M. Zub
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Brown dwarfs are important objects because they may provide a missing link between stars and planets, two populations that have dramatically different formation history. In this paper, we present the candidate binaries with brown dwarf companions that are found by analyzing binary microlensing events discovered during 2004 - 2011 observation seasons. Based on the low mass ratio criterion of q < 0.2, we found 7 candidate events, including OGLE-2004-BLG-035, OGLE-2004-BLG-039, OGLE-2007-BLG-006, OGLE-2007-BLG-399/MOA-2007-BLG-334, MOA-2011-BLG-104/OGLE-2011-BLG-0172, MOA-2011-BLG-149, and MOA-201-BLG-278/OGLE-2011-BLG-012N. Among them, we are able to confirm that the companions of the lenses of MOA-2011-BLG-104/OGLE-2011-BLG-0172 and MOA-2011-BLG-149 are brown dwarfs by determining the mass of the lens based on the simultaneous measurement of the Einstein radius and the lens parallax. The measured mass of the brown dwarf companions are (0.02 +/- 0.01) M_Sun and (0.019 +/- 0.002) M_Sun for MOA-2011-BLG-104/OGLE-2011-BLG-0172 and MOA-2011-BLG-149, respectively, and both companions are orbiting low mass M dwarf host stars. More microlensing brown dwarfs are expected to be detected as the number of lensing events with well covered light curves increases with new generation searches.

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