Published March 1, 2020 | Version v1
Journal article

Spitzer Microlensing Parallax Reveals Two Isolated Stars in the Galactic Bulge

  • 1. Department of Astronomy and Tsinghua Centre for Astrophysics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
  • 2. IPAC, Mail Code 100-22, Caltech, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
  • 3. Warsaw University Observatory, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warszawa (Poland)
  • 4. Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejon 34055 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 5. Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 (Japan)
  • 6. Centre for Electronic Imaging, Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA (United Kingdom)
  • 7. National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 (China)
  • 8. Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8 (Canada)
  • 9. Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
  • 10. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 (United States)
  • 11. Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, 140 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)

Description

We report the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. The ground-based observations yield the detection of finite-source effects, and the microlens parallaxes are derived from the joint analysis of ground-based observations and Spitzer observations. We find that the lens of OGLE-2017-BLG-1254 is a 0.60 ± 0.03 M star with D LS = 0.53 ± 0.11 kpc, where D LS is the distance between the lens and the source. The second event, OGLE-2017-BLG-1161, is subject to the known satellite parallax degeneracy, and thus is either a 0.51 0.10 + 0.12 M star with D LS = 0.40 ± 0.12 kpc or a 0.38 0.12 + 0.13 M star with D LS = 0.53 ± 0.19 kpc. Both of the lenses are therefore isolated stars in the Galactic bulge. By comparing the mass and distance distributions of the eight published Spitzer finite-source events with the expectations from a Galactic model, we find that the Spitzer sample is in agreement with the probability of finite-source effects occurring in single-lens events.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6ff8

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
891
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[11 p.]
ISSN
0004-637X
CODEN
ASJOAB

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
53002964
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
DISTANCE; DISTRIBUTION; MASS; SATELLITES; STARS