Microlensing in dark matter haloes

Using eight dark matter haloes extracted from fully self-consistent cosmological N-body simulations, we perform microlensing experiments. A hypothetical observer is placed at a distance of 8.5 kpc from the centre of the halo measuring optical depths, event durations and event rates towards the direc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2006-05, Vol.368 (3), p.1209-1222
Hauptverfasser: Holopainen, Janne, Flynn, Chris, Knebe, Alexander, Gill, Stuart P., Gibson, Brad K.
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Zusammenfassung:Using eight dark matter haloes extracted from fully self-consistent cosmological N-body simulations, we perform microlensing experiments. A hypothetical observer is placed at a distance of 8.5 kpc from the centre of the halo measuring optical depths, event durations and event rates towards the direction of the Large Magellanic Cloud. We simulate 1600 microlensing experiments for each halo. Assuming that the whole halo consists of massive astronomical compact halo objects (MACHOs), f= 1.0, and a single MACHO mass is mM= 1.0 M⊙, the simulations yield mean values of τ= 4.7+5.0−2.2× 10−7 and Γ= 1.6+1.3−0.6× 10−6 events star−1 yr−1. We find that triaxiality and substructure can have major effects on the measured values so that τ and Γ values of up to three times the mean can be found. If we fit our values of τ and Γ to the MACHO collaboration observations, we find f= 0.23+0.15−0.13 and mM= 0.44+0.24−0.16. Five out of the eight haloes under investigation produce f and mM values mainly concentrated within these bounds.
ISSN:0035-8711
1365-2966
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10205.x