Supplement: "An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing" (2022, ApJL, 933, L23)

Lam, Casey Y.; Lu, Jessica R.; Udalski, Andrzej; Bond, Ian; Bennett, David P.; Skowron, Jan; Mróz, Przemek; Poleski, Radek; Sumi, Takahiro; Szymański, Michał K.; Kozłowski, Szymon; Pietrukowicz, Paweł; Soszyński, Igor; Ulaczyk, Krzysztof; Wyrzykowski, Łukasz; Miyazaki, Shota; Suzuki, Daisuke; Koshimoto, Naoki; Rattenbury, Nicholas J.; Hosek, Matthew W.; Abe, Fumio; Barry, Richard; Bhattacharya, Aparna; Fukui, Akihiko; Fujii, Hirosane; Hirao, Yuki; Itow, Yoshitaka; Kirikawa, Rintaro; Kondo, Iona; Matsubara, Yutaka; Matsumoto, Sho; Muraki, Yasushi; Olmschenk, Greg; Ranc, Clément; Okamura, Arisa; Satoh, Yuki; Silva, Stela Ishitani; Toda, Taiga; Tristram, Paul J.; Vandorou, Aikaterini; Yama, Hibiki; Abrams, Natasha S.; Agarwal, Shrihan; Rose, Sam; Terry, Sean K.
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Fecha de publicación:
6
2022
Número de autores
45
Número de autores del IAC
1
Número de citas
3
Número de citas referidas
2
Descripción
This supplement provides supporting material for Lam et al. We briefly summarize past gravitational microlensing searches for black holes (BHs) and present details of the observations, analysis, and modeling of five BH candidates observed with both ground-based photometric microlensing surveys and Hubble Space Telescope astrometry and photometry. We present detailed results for four of the five candidates that show no or low probability for the lens to be a BH. In these cases, the lens masses are <2 M ⊙, and two of the four are likely white dwarfs or neutron stars. We also present detailed methods for comparing the full sample of five candidates to theoretical expectations of the number of BHs in the Milky Way (~108).