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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 0<R<R00<R<R0 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