The microlensing searches for Galactic dark matter.

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Dec 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998phr...307..107g&link_type=abstract

Physics Reports, Vol. 307, No. 1 - 4, p. 107 - 115

Physics

Dark Matter: Galaxy, Magellanic Clouds: Gravitational Microlensing

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For 6 years several microlensing collaborations have been monitoring stars in the Magellanic Clouds, leading to the discovery of a dozen microlensing candidates. These candidates, which are unlikely disk or thick disk objects, reveal a new population of Galactic objects identified with the predicted halo of dark matter. The increasing statistics allow for preliminary interpretation of the results, although the very nature of the experiments, for the time being, severely limits the identification of the nature of these objects. Massive objects (0.5 - 1 Msun) are favored, corresponding to a proportion of 30 - 100% of the halo, depending on the Galactic model. Observations towards the Galactic bulge and disk are also discussed.

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