Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-10-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages, latex + 1 postscript figure. Requires psfig.sty and mprocl.sty. To appear in the proceedings of the 8th Marcel Grossm
Scientific paper
Recent results from gravitational microlensing experiments, such as MACHO, indicate that a substantial fraction of the Galactic dark matter (DM) is in compact form, with a typical mass in the range ~0.05 - 1 Mo. This mass range favours the DM being either low-mass hydrogen-burning stars or white-dwarf remnants of an early stellar population. There appears however to be a conflict between microlensing and other results, such as from Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which argue against a high DM fraction in hydrogen-burning stars or their remnants. Here I discuss the possibility that the DM detected by MACHO comprises low-mass stars residing in globular cluster associations. I show that such a scenario can reconcile HST and MACHO results and can also satisfy cluster dynamical constraints.
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