Microlensing Events: End of the Dark Halo?

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1994-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9408060v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, no figures, PostScript file, or request PostScript file to gould@payne.mps.ohio-state.edu, OSU-TA-16/94

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I obtain an upper limit for the optical depth to microlensing toward Baade's Window of $3\times 10^{-6}$ by assuming that all of the mass of the Galaxy interior to the Sun (and not in the bulge) is in a disk. The exponential scale height of the disk is left as a completely arbitrary function of radius and is varied to maximize the optical depth. I take account of the relatively small corrections induced by the fact that the bulge is not axisymmetric. If initial estimates by the OGLE collaboration of an observed optical depth $\tau\sim 3.3\times 10^{-6}$ are confirmed, then essentially all of the dark matter interior to the Sun must be in a disk with a scale height of a few hundred parsecs.

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