Spitzer Microlensing Parallax Reveals Two Isolated Stars in the Galactic Bulge
Creators
- Zang, Weicheng1
- Wang, Tianshu1
- Mao, Shude1
- Shvartzvald, Yossi2
- Calchi Novati, Sebastiano2
- Beichman, Charles A.2
- Carey, Sean2
- Henderson, Calen B.2
- Udalski, Andrzej3
- Mróz, Przemek3
- Skowron, Jan3
- Poleski, Radoslaw3
- Lee, Chung-Uk4
- Sumi, Takahiro5
- Skottfelt, Jesper6
- Li, Shun-Sheng7
- Zhu, Wei8
- Yee, Jennifer C.9
- Bryden, Geoffery10
- Gaudi, B. Scott11
- and others
- Leading Authors
- Spitzer Team
- OGLE Collaboration
- LCO and μFUN Follow-up Teams
- KMTNet Collaboration
- MOA Collaboration
- MiNDSTEp Collaboration
- 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 star with D LS = 0.40 ± 0.12 kpc or a 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/ab6ff8Additional details
Identifiers
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