Probing the Mass Function of Halo Dark Matter

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Dec 2002

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"THE NINTH MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and R

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The simplest interpretation of the microlensing events observed towards the Large Magellanic Cloud is that approximately half of the mass of the Milky Way halo is in the form of MAssive Compact Halo Objects with mass M ~ 0.5M&sun;. This poses severe problems for stellar MACHO candidates, and leads to the consideration of more exotic objects such as primordial black holes (PBHs). Constraining the MACHO mass function will shed light on their nature. Using the current data we find, for four halo models, the best fit delta-function, power law and PBH mass functions. The best fit PBH mass functions, despite having significant finite width, have likelihoods which are similar to, and for one particular halo model greater than, those of the best fit delta functions. We also find that if the correct halo model is known then ~ 500 events will be sufficient to determine whether the MACHO mass function has significant width, and will also allow determination of the mass function parameters to ~ 5%.

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