Journal article
Variable Stars in the MACHO Collaboration1 Database
Abstract
Abstract The MACHO Collaboration’s search for baryonic dark matter via its gravitational microlensing signature has generated a massive database of time ordered photometry of millions of stars in the LMC and the bulge of the Milky Way. The search’s experimental design and capabilities are reviewed and the dark matter results are briefly noted. Preliminary analysis of the ~ 39,000 variable stars discovered in the LMC database is presented and …
Authors
Cook KH; Alcock C; Allsman RA; Axelrod TS; Freeman KC; Peterson BA; Quinn PJ; Rodgers AW; Bennett DP; Reimann J
Journal
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, Vol. 155, , pp. 221–231
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date
1995
DOI
10.1017/s0252921100037015
ISSN
0252-9211