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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 2ht02y2 h \lesssim t_0 \lesssim 2 y corresponding masses in the range 106MM100M10^{-6} M_{\odot} \lesssim M \lesssim 100 M_{\odot}. We suggest that larger masses up to 106M10^6 M_{\odot} 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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