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Spatially Varying Mass Function of MACHOs in the Galactic Halo and Interpretation of Microlensing Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Sohrab Rahvar
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, P.O.Box 11365–9161, Tehran, Iran, email: rahvar@sharif.edu Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, P.O.Box 19395–5531, Tehran, Iran
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Abstract

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The gravitational microlensing experiments in the direction of Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) predict a large amount of white dwarfs ($\sim$ 20%) filling the galactic halo. However, the predicted white dwarfs have not been observed at the galactic halo. To interpret the microlensing results and resolving the mentioned problems, we use the hypothesis of spatially varying mass function of MACHOs, proposed by Kerins & Evans (1998) (hereafter KE). However the KE model is not compatible with the duration distribution of events (Rahvar 2004a). Here we use more realistic power-law model of MF, $dn/dm\propto m^{\alpha}$ for the MACHOs of halo. The index of MF in this model changes from $-2.7$ for stars with $m>1 M_{\bigodot}$ at the central part of galactic halo to the substellar regime with an upper limit of $-1$ at the edge of halo. We show that in contrast to the abundant brown dwarfs of galactic halo, heavy MACHOs can be responsible for the microlensing events in the direction of LMC.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

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