The Relative Lens-Source Proper Motion in MACHO 98-SMC-1

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We present photometric and spectroscopic data for the second microlensing event seen toward the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), MACHO-98-SMC-001. The lens is a binary. We resolve the caustic crossing and find that the source took 2 Delta t = 8.5 hours to transit the caustic. We measure the source temperature T_eff=8000 K both spectroscopically and from the color (V-I)_0~0.22. We find two acceptable binary-lens models. In the first, the source crosses the caustic at phi=43.2 deg and the unmagnified source magnitude is I_s=22.15. The angle implies that the lens crosses the source radius in time t_* = Delta t sin phi = 2.92 hours. The magnitude (together with the temperature) implies that the angular radius of the source is theta_* = 89 nano-arsec. Hence, the proper motion is mu=theta_*/t_*=1.26 km/s/kpc. For the second solution, the corresponding parameters are phi=30.6 deg, I_s=21.81, t_*=2.15 hours, theta_* = 104 nano-asrsec, mu=2.00 km/s/kpc. Both proper-motion estimates are slower than 99.5% of the proper motions expected for halo lenses. Both are consistent with an ordinary binary lens moving at in the SMC proper.

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