Lensing of Invisible Stars by Brown Dwarfs
Abstract
Description
To detect brown dwarfs in the dark galactic halo through gravitational lensing, experiments follow the luminosity of millions of stars to observe a few lensing events par year. The luminosity of a star too faint to be continuously followed can be temporarily increased above the detection limit by a lensing. The detection of these invisible stars would increase the number of events by a factor 2 to 7, and moreover their presence would confirm the lensing interpretation of events due to continuously monitored stars.
9p, LaTeX, PAR-LPTHE 93-02
9p, LaTeX, PAR-LPTHE 93-02