Probing the Mass Fraction of MACHOs in Extragalactic Halos

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1997-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706119v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/305170

Current microlensing searches calibrate the mass fraction of the Milky Way halo which is in the form of Massive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs). We show that surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) can probe the same quantity in halos of distant galaxies. Microlensing of background quasars by MACHOs in intervening galaxies would distort the equivalent width distribution of the quasar emission lines by an amplitude that depends on the projected quasar-galaxy separation. For a statistical sample of detectable at the >2sigma level out to a quasar-galaxy impact parameter of several tens of kpc, as long as extragalactic halos are made of MACHOs. Detection of this signal would test whether the MACHO fraction inferred for the Milky-Way halo is typical of other galaxies.

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