HADS in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Initial findings from the SuperMACHO Project Arti Garg Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics This work work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laborator under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. Stellar Pulsation, Santa Fe, NM June 4, 2009 LLNL-PRES-413511
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HADS in the Large Magellanic Cloud:Initial findings from the SuperMACHO Project
Arti GargLawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
This work work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
Stellar Pulsation, Santa Fe, NMJune 4, 2009LLNL-PRES-413511
Microlensing to Detect MACHOs
• In 1986, B. Paczynski suggested using gravitational microlensing toward the Magellanic Clouds to detect MACHOs
Large Magellanic Cloud
Milky Way Halo
Us
MACHOs
Light PathMW illustration: Mark Garlick (Space-art) Earth Image: Apollo 17
SuperMACHO ProjectLLNL/IGPP: A. Garg, K.H. Cook, S.Nikolaev, Harvard: A. Rest, C.W. Stubbs (P.I.), P. Challis, W.M.
Wood-Vasey, G. Narayan, NOAO: R.C. Smith, K. Olsen, A. Zenteno, JHU: M.E. Huber, UW: A. Becker, A. Miceli, FNAL: G. Miknaitis, McMaster: D.L. Welch, Catolica: A. Clocchiati, D. Minniti,
Padova: L. Morelli, OSU: J.L. Prieto, UT-Austin: N.B. Suntzeff