Limits on the Macho Content of the Galactic Halo from the EROS-2 Survey of the Magellanic clouds

Tisserand, Patrick; Le Guillou, L.; Afonso, C.; Albert, J. N.; Anderson, J.; Ansari, R.; Aubourg, E.; Bareyre, P.; Beaulieu, J.-P.; Charlot, X.; Coutures, C.; Ferlet, R.; Fouque, P.; Glicenstein, J. F.; Goldman, B.; Gould, A.; Graff, D.; Gros, M.; Haissinski, J.; Hamadache, C.; de Kat, J.; Lasserre, T.; Lesquoy, E.; Loup, C.; Magneville, C.; Marquette, J. B.; Maurice, E.; Maury, A.; Milsztajn, A.; Moniez, M.; Palanque-Delabrouille, N.; Perdereau, O.; Rahal, Y. R.; Rich, J.; Spiro, M.; Vidal-Madjar, A.; Vigroux, L.; Zylberajch, S.

Limits on the Macho Content of the Galactic Halo from the EROS-2 Survey of the Magellanic clouds

Date

2007

Authors

Tisserand, Patrick

Le Guillou, L.

Afonso, C.

Albert, J. N.

Anderson, J.

Ansari, R.

Aubourg, E.

Bareyre, P.

Beaulieu, J.-P.

Charlot, X.

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

Aims. The EROS-2 project was designed to test the hypothesis that massive compact halo objects (the so-called "machos") could be a major component of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way galaxy. To this end, EROS-2 monitored over 6.7 years 33 × 106 star