作者: R. A. Allsman , P. J. Quinn , D. Alves , D. Alves , A. W. Rodgers
DOI: 10.1086/304535
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摘要: The MACHO Project is a search for dark matter in the form of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs). Photometric monitoring of millions of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and Galactic bulge is used to search for gravitational microlensing events caused by these otherwise invisible objects. Analysis of the first 2.1 yr of photometry of 8.5 million stars in the LMC reveals eight candidate microlensing events. This is substantially more than the number expected (∼ 1.1) from lensing by known stellar …