High Longevity Microlensing Events and Dark Matter Black Holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-12-27 v6 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Gravitational microlensing has been employed to identify massive halo objects by their amplification of distant sources; MACHO searches have studied event times corresponding masses in the range . We suggest that larger masses up to are also of considerable interest. It has not been excluded that there is a significant number of halo black holes with such high masses as suggested by cosmological entropy considerations and potentially detectable by high longevity microlensing events.
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@article{arxiv.0806.1707,
title = {High Longevity Microlensing Events and Dark Matter Black Holes},
author = {Paul H. Frampton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1707},
year = {2008}
}
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