Title of article :
HST Imaging of MEGA Microlensing Candidates in M31
Author/Authors :
Patrick Cseresnjes، نويسنده , , Arlin P. S. Crotts، نويسنده , , Jelte T. A. de Jong، نويسنده , , Alex Bergier، نويسنده , , Edward A. Baltz، نويسنده , , Geza Gyuk، نويسنده , , Konrad Kuijken، نويسنده , , Lawrence M. Widrow، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی 2 سال 2005
Pages :
-104
From page :
105
To page :
0
Abstract :
We investigate HST/ACS and WFPC2 images at the positions of five candidate microlensing events from a large survey of variability in M31 (MEGA). Three closely match unresolved sources, and two produce only flux upper limits. All are confined to regions of the color-magnitude diagram where stellar variability is unlikely to be easily confused with microlensing. Red variable stars cannot explain these events (although background supernovae are possible for two). If these lenses arise in M31ʹs halo, they are due to masses 0.15 < m/M(circle dot operator) < 0.49 (95% certainty, for a (delta)-function mass distribution), with brown dwarfs for disk lenses and stellar masses for bulge lenses.
Keywords :
Dark matter , galaxies , individual (M31) , halos , gravitational lensing
Journal title :
Astrophysical Journal
Serial Year :
2005
Journal title :
Astrophysical Journal
Record number :
74183
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