Gravitational Microlensing Results from MACHO

Details Gravitational Microlensing Results from MACHO Gravitational Microlensing Results from MACHO

1996-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9611059v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Latex, 12 pages, uses sprocl.sty (included), with 5 Postscript figures. To appear in proceedings of workshop on ``Identificati

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The MACHO project is searching for dark matter in the form of massive compact halo objects (Machos), by monitoring the brightness of millions of stars in the Magellanic Clouds to search for gravitational microlensing events. Analysis of our first 2.3 years of data for 8.5 million stars in the LMC yields 8 candidate microlensing events, well in excess of the $\approx 1$ event expected from lensing by known low-mass stars. The event timescales range from 34 to 145 days, and the estimated optical depth is $\sim$ 2 x 10^{-7}, about half of that expected from a `standard' halo. Likelihood analysis indicates the typical lens mass is $0.5^{+0.3}_{-0.2} \Msun$, suggesting they may be old white dwarfs.

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