The MACHO Project Constraints on Low Mass Machos in the Galactic Halo

Details The MACHO Project Constraints on Low Mass Machos in the Galactic Halo The MACHO Project Constraints on Low Mass Machos in the Galactic Halo

Nov 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996nuphs..51..141l&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, v. 51, p. 141-145.

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Scientific paper

The MACHO project has been monitoring about ten million stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the search for gravitational microlensing events caused by massive compact halo objects (Machos) in the halo of the Milky Way. The standard analysis for well sampled, long duration microlensing is sensitive to objects with masses 10-5 <~ m <~ 1Msolar. However, a different analysis method sensitive to short duration events extends the sensitivity of the experiment to lower masses. Combining the results of the analyses of the first two years of data from the LMC shows that Machos with masses in the range 2.5 × 10-7 < m < 8.1 × 10-2 Msolar cannot make up the entire mass of a standard spherical dark halo.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

The MACHO Project Constraints on Low Mass Machos in the Galactic Halo does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with The MACHO Project Constraints on Low Mass Machos in the Galactic Halo, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and The MACHO Project Constraints on Low Mass Machos in the Galactic Halo will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1150786