Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-07-26
Astrophys.J. 532 (2000) L37-L40
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in ApJ Letters. Shortened to match the accepted version, 8 pages plus 1 ps figure
Scientific paper
10.1086/312552
There are lines of evidence suggesting that some of the observed microlensing events in the direction of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are caused by ordinary star lenses as opposed to dark Machos in the Galactic halo. Efficient lensing by ordinary stars generally requires the presence of one or more additional concentrations of stars along the line of sight to the LMC disk. If such a population behind the LMC disk exists, then the source stars (for lensing by LMC disk objects) will be drawn preferentially from the background population and will show systematic differences from LMC field stars. One such difference is that the (lensed) source stars will be farther away than the average LMC field stars, and this should be reflected in their apparent baseline magnitudes. We focus on red clump stars: these should appear in the color-magnitude diagram at a few tenths of a magnitude fainter than the field red clump. Suggestively, one of the two near-clump confirmed events, MACHO-LMC-1, is a few tenths of magnitude fainter than the clump.
Graff David
Guhathakurta Puragra
Zhao HongSheng
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