Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge
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 star with , where 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 or a star with . 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 occurrence in single lens events.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.11204,
title = {Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge},
author = {Weicheng Zang and Yossi Shvartzvald and Tianshu Wang and Andrzej Udalski and Chung-Uk Lee and Takahiro Sumi and Jesper Skottfelt and Shun-Sheng Li and Shude Mao and Wei Zhu and Jennifer C. Yee and Sebastiano Calchi Novati and Charles A. Beichman and Geoffery Bryden and Sean Carey and B. Scott Gaudi and Calen B. Henderson and Przemek Mróz and Jan Skowron and Radoslaw Poleski and Michał K. Szymański and Igor Soszyński and Paweł Pietrukowicz and Szymon Kozłowski and Krzysztof Ulaczyk and Krzysztof A. Rybicki and Patryk Iwanek and Etienne Bachelet and Grant Christie and Jonathan Green and Steve Hennerley and Dan Maoz and Tim Natusch and Richard W. Pogge and Rachel A. Street and Yiannis Tsapras and Michael D. Albrow and Sun-Ju Chung and Andrew Gould and Cheongho Han and Kyu-Ha Hwang and Youn Kil Jung and Yoon-Hyun Ryu and In-Gu Shin and Sang-Mok Cha and Dong-Jin Kim and Hyoun-Woo Kim and Seung-Lee Kim and Dong-Joo Lee and Yongseok Lee and Byeong-Gon Park and Richard W. Pogge and Ian A. Bond and Fumio be and Richard Barry and David P. Bennett and Aparna Bhattacharya and Martin Donachie and Akihiko Fukui and Yuki Hirao and Yoshitaka Itow and Iona Kondo and Naoki Koshimoto and Man Cheung Alex Li and Yutaka Matsubara and Yasushi Muraki and Shota Miyazaki and Masayuki Nagakane and Clément Ranc and Nicholas J. Rattenbury and Haruno Suematsu and Denis J. Sullivan and Daisuke Suzuki and Paul J. Tristram and Atsunori Yonehara and Martin Dominik and Markus Hundertmark and Uffe G. Jørgensen and Sohrab Rahvar and Sedighe Sajadian and Colin Snodgrass and Valerio Bozza and Martin J. Burgdorf and Daniel F. Evans and Roberto Figuera Jaimes and Yuri I. Fujii and Luigi Mancini and Penelope Longa-Peña and hristiane Helling and Nuno Peixinho and Markus Rabus and John Southworth and Eduardo Unda-Sanzana and Carolina von Essen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11204},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
16 pages, 6 Figures. Submitted to AAS journal