Microlensing, flattening, $Ω_B$ and $h$: from assumptions, via data to tentative conclusions

Milosevic-Zdjelar, Vesna; Samurovic, Srdjan; Cirkovic, Milan M.

Microlensing, flattening, $Ω_B$ and $h$: from assumptions, via data to tentative conclusions

Authors

Milosevic-Zdjelar, Vesna

Samurovic, Srdjan

Cirkovic, Milan M.

Description

Microlensing observations can be used for determining the shape of the Milky Way's halo. It can be shown that the data are best described with moderately flattened halo, 0.5 < q < 0.6. We discuss, by taking into account this result, the constraints on the baryonic mass-density parameter, $Ω_B$, and their implications on the value of the Hubble constant $H_0$, i.e. $h$. Our conclusion is that current data, in order to satisfy BBNS and Galaxy dynamics constraints, strongly suggest that $h$ should take values within the lower part of the permissible range, $h\sim 0.5$.
2 pages, 1 figure, uses PASP conference proceedings style, poster contribution to "Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals", Boston University, July 1999, eds. T.G. Brainerd and C.S. Kochanek