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Microlensing Events: End of the Dark Halo?

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I obtain an upper limit for the optical depth to microlensing toward Baade's Window of 3×1063\times 10^{-6} 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 τ3.3×106\tau\sim 3.3\times 10^{-6} 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.

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@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}
}

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6 pages, no figures, PostScript file, or request PostScript file to [email protected], OSU-TA-16/94