No Need for MACHOS in the Halo

Preprint

12 November 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9711110

Abstract

A simple interpretation of the more than dozen microlensing events seen in the direction of the LMC is a halo population of MACHOs which accounts for about half of the mass of the Galaxy. Such an interpretation is not without its problems, and we show that current microlensing data can, with some advantage, be explained by dark components of the disk and spheroid, whose total mass is only about 10% of the mass of the Galaxy.

Keywords

SIMPLE INTERPRETATION
CURRENT MICROLENSING
DARK COMPONENTS
THAN DOZEN
SPHEROID
NO NEED
MACHOS
GALAXY
HALO

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Version 1, 1997-11-12, ArXiv
Published version: The Astrophysical Journal, 500 (2), L145.

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