A New Argument Against An Intervening Stellar Population Toward the LMC

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1999-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9902374v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to ApJ. 6 pages. No figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/307930

Zaritsky & Lin have claimed detection of an intervening population of stars toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) which, they believe, could account for a substantial fraction of the observed microlensing events. I show that the observed time scales of these events imply that if such an intervening population were composed of ordinary stars that gave rise to a significant fraction of the microlensing events, then it could not be associated with the LMC. I present two independent statistical arguments which together essentially rule out such a chance alignment of unassociated structures. On the other hand, if the intervening structure is associated with the LMC, I show that of order half the mass in this structure is in substellar objects, which would make it unlike any known stellar population.

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