Gravitational microlensing as a test of a finite-width disk model of the Galaxy
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-03-19 v3
Abstract
The aim of this work is to show, in the framework of a simple finite-width disk model, that the amount of mass seen through gravitational microlensing measurements in the region is consistent with the dynamical mass ascertained from Galaxy rotation after subtracting gas contribution. Since microlensing only detects compact objects, this result suggests that a non-baryonic mass component may be negligible in this region.
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@article{arxiv.1103.5056,
title = {Gravitational microlensing as a test of a finite-width disk model of the Galaxy},
author = {Szymon Sikora and Łukasz Bratek and Joanna Jałocha and Marek Kutschera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5056},
year = {2015}
}
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10 pages, 12 figures