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朝向麦哲伦云的微透镜的OGLE视图。I. OGLE-II LMC数据中的一系列事件

The OGLE View of Microlensing towards the Magellanic Clouds. I. A Trickle of Events in the OGLE-II LMC data

L. Wyrzykowski, S. Kozlowski, J. Skowron, V. Belokurov, M. C. Smith, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, K. Zebrun

摘要:

本文介绍了1996-2000年对大麦云(LMC)的OGLE-II巡天的结果,该巡天的目的是探测星系晕(Machos)中暗物质致密天体引起的微透镜现象。我们使用高分辨率的HST图像的OGLE领域,并推导出在每个领域的监测恒星的数量的校正。这也产生混合分布,我们使用的“目录级”的微透镜事件的蒙特卡罗模拟,以计算事件的检测效率。我们在全明星样本中检测到两个微透镜事件的候选者,这意味着光学深度为0.43+-0.33x 10 e-7。如果这两个事件都是由于Macho造成的,那么星系晕中致密暗物质天体的质量分数将为8+-6%。然而,这个光学深度以及事件的特征似乎与自透镜情景一致,即,单独的自透镜足以解释所观察到的微透镜信号。我们的研究结果表明,没有检测到Machos透镜对LMC的上限,他们的丰度在星系晕的19%的M=0.4 Msun和10%的质量之间的0.01和0.2 Msun。

英文摘要:

We present the results from the OGLE-II survey (1996-2000) towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which has the aim of detecting the microlensing phenomena caused by dark matter compact objects in the Galactic Halo (Machos). We use high resolution HST images of the OGLE fields and derive the correction for the number of monitored stars in each field. This also yield blending distributions which we use in 'catalogue level' Monte Carlo simulations of the microlensing events in order to calculate the detection efficiency of the events. We detect two candidates for microlensing events in the All Stars Sample, which translates into an optical depth of 0.43+-0.33x 10e-7. If both events were due to Macho the fraction of mass of compact dark matter objects in the Galactic halo would be 8+-6 per cent. This optical depth, however, along with the characteristics of the events, seems to be consistent with the self-lensing scenario, i.e., self-lensing alone is sufficient to explain the observed microlensing signal. Our results indicate a non-detection of Machos lensing towards the LMC with an upper limit on their abundance in the Galactic halo of 19 per cent for M=0.4 Msun and 10 per cent for masses between 0.01 and 0.2 Msun.

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