Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991apj...371l..63p&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 371, April 20, 1991, p. L63-L67.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Brown Dwarf Stars, Gravitational Lenses, Optical Thickness, Stellar Mass, Variable Stars, Dark Matter, Galactic Nuclei
Scientific paper
The optical depth to microlensing on the ordinary disk stars is about 4 x 10 to the -7th for the Galactic bulge stars visible in Baade's window. This means that at any given time one out of about 2.5 x 10 to the 6th bulge stars must be brightened by at least 0.3 mag. The duration of events is proportional to the square root of mass of the lensing star, and it is in the range of 1 week to 1 month for the lensing stars of 0.1-1.0 solar mass. The average number of events with the amplitude exceeding 0.3 mag is expected to be about 4 per year per million bulge stars. If there are brown dwarfs in the Galactic disk with masses in the range 0.01-0.1 solar mass, with the total mass density equal to the total mass density of the ordinary stars, then the combined optical depth to microlensing of the bulge stars is about 8 x 10 to the -7th, the average number of events with the amplitude exceeding 0.3 mag is expected to be about 17 per year per million bulge stars, and the time scales of events are in the range of 3-20 days.
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