Microlensing Events: End of the Dark Halo?
Abstract
I obtain an upper limit for the optical depth to microlensing toward Baade's Window of by assuming that all of the mass of the Galaxy interior to the Sun (and not in the bulge) is in a disk. The exponential scale height of the disk is left as a completely arbitrary function of radius and is varied to maximize the optical depth. I take account of the relatively small corrections induced by the fact that the bulge is not axisymmetric. If initial estimates by the OGLE collaboration of an observed optical depth are confirmed, then essentially all of the dark matter interior to the Sun must be in a disk with a scale height of a few hundred parsecs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9408060,
title = {Microlensing Events: End of the Dark Halo?},
author = {Andrew Gould},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9408060},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, no figures, PostScript file, or request PostScript file to [email protected], OSU-TA-16/94