Expected EAGLE event rate towards the Magellanic Clouds

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1998-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805203v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, Prog. Theor. Phys. in press

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTP.99.963

We propose to search for MACHOs by observing EAGLE (Extremely Amplified Gravitational LEnsing) events of a majority of dim stars. This search is independent of the usual one. For the detection limit of EAGLE (about 20 mag), about 100 f (\tau^{LMC} / 3 \times 10^{-7}) (100 days / ) EAGLE events/y are expected to result from all the dim stars in LMC. Here \tau^{LMC} and are the optical depth and the average duration of microlensing events, respectively, while f (0 < f < 1) is a parameter depending on the unknown stellar luminosity function. The observed mean duration of EAGLE events also depends on the luminosity function and is (0.01 - 0.4) times the usual duration of microlensing events, which corresponds to (1 - 30) days. The follow-up observation using larger telescopes may enable us to determine the impact parameter and the true duration of the event. If f is determined by another independent method, we can also determine \tau^{LMC}. Even if f is undetermined, the detection of EAGLE events strongly suggest that MACHOs are not due to variable source stars, since EAGLE events are due to the dim main-sequence stars. Although for the SMC, the event rate is smaller by a factor of about 7, it is still a substantial number (about 13 f (\tau^{SMC} / 3 \times 10^{-7} (100 days / ) events/y).

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