Old White Dwarfs as a Microlensing Population
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A popular interpretation of recent microlensing studies of the line of sight towards the Large Magellanic Cloud invokes a population of old white dwarf stars in the Galactic halo. Below I review the basic properties of old white dwarf stars and the ongoing efforts to detect this population directly.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0004133,
title = {Old White Dwarfs as a Microlensing Population},
author = {Brad M. S. Hansen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0004133},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
TeX, 7 pages plus 2 postscript figures To be published in: Microlensing 2000. ASP Conference Series, Eds. J W Menzies, P Sackett