MagAO observations of the binary microlens OGLE-2014-BLG-1050 prefer the higher-mass solution

Abstract

We report adaptive-optics (AO) follow-up imaging of OGLE-2014-BLG-1050, which is the second binary microlensing event with space-based parallax measurements. The degeneracy in microlens parallax pi_E led to two sets of solutions, either a ~(0.9, 0.35) M_Sun binary at ~3.5 kpc, or a ~(0.2, 0.07) M_Sun binary at ~1.1 kpc. We measure the flux blended with the microlensed source by conducting Magellan AO observations, and find that the blending is consistent with the predicted lens flux from the higher-mass solution. From the combination of the AO flux measurement together with previous lensing constraints, it is estimated that} the lens system consists of a $1.05_{-0.07}^{+0.08}$ M_Sun primary and a $0.38_{-0.06}^{+0.07}$ M_Sun secondary at $3.43_{-0.21}^{+0.19}$ kpc.

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