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The EROS2 Microlensing Study of the Galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Clarisse Hamadache*
Affiliation:
CEA, DSM/DAPNIA/SPP, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

Abstract

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The latest results of the Eros2 experiment are presented. the search for gravitational microlensing events toward the Galactic Center and toward the Magellanic Clouds yielded an optical depth τbulge = 0.94 ± 0.29 × 10–6, and a strong limit, combining all Eros analyses, on the composition of the halo. Less than 25% of a standard halo can be composed of MACHOs with a mass range [10–7, 1] M at the 95% C.L.

Type
Part 4: Lensing
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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