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Mining the MACHO dataset

Date

Authors

Hegland, Markus

Clarke, William

Kahn, Margaret

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

In order to detect massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) using microlensing, nightly images of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and the Galactic Bulge were taken between 1992 and 2000 with a 1.27 meter telescope. The resulting data contains 8·1010 p

Keywords

Keywords: Astronomy; Image analysis; Microlenses; Object recognition; Photometry; Space research; Telescopes; Gravitational lens effect; Data mining Data mining; MACHO project; Variable stars

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/64082

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Computer Physics Communications

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/S0010-4655(01)00307-1

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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