Spitzer Microlensing Parallax Reveals Two Isolated Stars in the Galactic Bulge

Shvartzvald, Yossi; Udalski, Andrzej; Mao, Shude; Yee, Jennifer C.; Novati, Sebastiano Calchi; Carey, Sean; Gaudi, B. Scott; Henderson, Calen B.; Skowron, Jan; Szymanski, Michal K.; Soszynski, Igor; Pietrukowicz, Pawel; Kozowski, Szymon; Gould, Andrew; Jaimes, R. Figuera; et. al.

Abstract

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-circle dot 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-circle dot star with D-LS = 0.40 +/- 0.12 kpc or a 0.38(-0.12)(+0.13) M-circle dot 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.

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Título según WOS: Spitzer Microlensing Parallax Reveals Two Isolated Stars in the Galactic Bulge
Título de la Revista: ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volumen: 891
Número: 1
Editorial: IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Fecha de publicación: 2020
DOI:

10.3847/1538-4357/AB6FF8

Notas: ISI