# Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge

## TL;DR

This paper reports mass and distance measurements of two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge using Spitzer microlensing data, confirming their nature as single-lens events and comparing findings with Galactic models.

## Contribution

First measurements of isolated stars in the Galactic bulge via Spitzer microlensing, demonstrating the effectiveness of joint ground and space-based observations.

## Key findings

- Both lenses are isolated stars in the Galactic bulge.
- The measurements are consistent with Galactic model predictions.
- One event has a known parallax degeneracy, leading to two possible solutions.

## 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 $0.60 \pm 0.03 M_{\odot}$ star with $D_{\rm LS} = 0.53 \pm 0.11~\text{kpc}$, where $D_{\rm LS}$ 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 $0.51^{+0.12}_{-0.10} M_{\odot}$ star with $D_{\rm LS} = 0.40 \pm 0.12~\text{kpc}$ or a $0.38^{+0.13}_{-0.12} M_{\odot}$ star with $D_{\rm LS} = 0.53 \pm 0.19~\text{kpc}$. 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 occurrence in single lens events.