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18 April 2024

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Gravitational Microlensing Results from MACHO
The MACHO Collaboration: W. Sutherland ; C. Alcock ; R.A. Allsman ; D. Alves ; T.S. Axelrod ; A.C. Becker ; D.P. Bennett ; K.H. Cook ; K.C. Freeman ; K. Griest ; J. Guern ; M.J. Lehner ; S.L. Marshall ; B.A. Peterson ; M.R. Pratt ; P.J. Quinn ; A.W. Rodgers ; C.W. Stubbs ; D.L. Welch ;
Date:	7 Nov 1996
Subject:	astro-ph
Abstract:	The MACHO project is searching for dark matter in the form of massive compact halo objects (Machos), by monitoring the brightness of millions of stars in the Magellanic Clouds to search for gravitational microlensing events. Analysis of our first 2.3 years of data for 8.5 million stars in the LMC yields 8 candidate microlensing events, well in excess of the $approx 1$ event expected from lensing by known low-mass stars. The event timescales range from 34 to 145 days, and the estimated optical depth is $sim$ 2 x 10^{-7}, about half of that expected from a `standard’ halo. Likelihood analysis indicates the typical lens mass is $0.5^{+0.3}_{-0.2} Msun$, suggesting they may be old white dwarfs.
Source:	arXiv, astro-ph/9611059
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