Observation of Microlensing towards the Galactic Spiral Arms. EROS II 3 year survey

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2000-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001083v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 pages, 3 figures, submitted for publication in A&A Letters

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We present an analysis of the light curves of 9.1 million stars observed during three seasons by EROS (Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres), in the Galactic plane away from the bulge. Seven stars exhibit luminosity variations compatible with gravitational microlensing effects due to unseen objects. The corresponding optical depth, averaged over four directions, is tau = 0.45 +0.24 -0.11 x 10^-6. While this value is compatible with expectations from simple galactic models under reasonable assumptions on the target distances, we find an excess of events with short timescale towards the direction closest to the Galactic Centre.

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