MACHO Project Limits on Black Hole Dark Matter in the 1-30 M☉ Range

C Alcock, RA Allsman, DR Alves… - The Astrophysical …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
C Alcock, RA Allsman, DR Alves, TS Axelrod, AC Becker, DP Bennett, KH Cook, N Dalal…
The Astrophysical Journal, 2001iopscience.iop.org
We report on a search for long-duration microlensing events toward the Large Magellanic
Cloud. We find none and therefore put limits on the contribution of high-mass objects to the
Galactic dark matter. At a 95% confidence level, we exclude objects in the mass range of 0.3–
30.0 M⊙ from contributing more than 4× 10 11 M⊙ to the Galactic halo. Combined with
earlier results, this means that objects with masses under 30 M⊙ cannot make up the entire
dark matter halo if the halo is of typical size. For a typical dark halo, objects with masses …
Abstract
We report on a search for long-duration microlensing events toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. We find none and therefore put limits on the contribution of high-mass objects to the Galactic dark matter. At a 95% confidence level, we exclude objects in the mass range of 0.3–30.0 M⊙ from contributing more than 4× 10 11 M⊙ to the Galactic halo. Combined with earlier results, this means that objects with masses under 30 M⊙ cannot make up the entire dark matter halo if the halo is of typical size. For a typical dark halo, objects with masses under 10 M⊙ contribute less than 40% of the dark matter.
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