OGLE-III Galactic bulge microlensing events Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wyrzykowski L.
  2. Rynkiewicz A.E.
  3. Skowron J.
  4. Kozlowski S.
  5. Udalski A.,Szymanski M.K.
  6. Kubiak M.
  7. Soszynski I.
  8. Pietrzynski G.
  9. Poleski R.,Pietrukowicz P.
  10. Pawlak M.
  11. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present and study the largest and most comprehensive catalog of microlensing events ever constructed. The sample of standard microlensing events comprises 3718 unique events from 2001-2009 with 1409 events that had not been detected before in real-time by the Early Warning System of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. The search pipeline uses machine learning algorithms to help find rare phenomena among 150 million objects and to derive the detection efficiency. Applications of the catalog can be numerous, from analyzing individual events to large statistical studies of the Galactic mass, kinematics distributions, and planetary abundances. We derive maps of the mean Einstein ring crossing time of events spanning 31 deg^2^ toward the Galactic center and compare the observed distributions with the most recent models. We find good agreement within the observed region and we see the signature of the tilt of the bar in the microlensing data. However, the asymmetry of the mean timescales seems to rise more steeply than predicted, indicating either a somewhat different orientation of the bar or a larger bar width. The map of events with sources in the Galactic bulge shows a dependence of the mean timescale on the Galactic latitude, signaling an increasing contribution from disk lenses closer to the plane relative to the height of the disk. Our data present a perfect set for comparing and enhancing new models of the central parts of the Milky Way and creating a three-dimensional picture of the Galaxy.

Keywords
  1. Gravitational lensing
  2. Milky Way Galaxy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015ApJS..216...12W
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/216/12
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/216/12
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22160012

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/216/12
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/216/12
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/216/12
IVOA Table Access TAP
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Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/12/table3?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/12/table3?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/12/table3?
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/12/classA?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/12/classA?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/12/classA?

History

2015-03-04T15:31:04Z
Resource record created
2015-03-04T15:31:04Z
Created
2017-06-12T08:25:05Z
Updated

Contact

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Postal Address
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