Eamonn Kerins
Published 2000-07-11Version 1
I review proposals for explaining the current gravitational microlensing results from the EROS and MACHO surveys towards the Magellanic Clouds. Solutions involving massive compact halo objects (MACHOs), both baryonic and non-baryonic, as well as solutions that do not require MACHOs, are discussed. Whilst the existence and nature of MACHOs remains to be established, the prospects for achieving this over the next few years are good.
Comments: 6 pages. Invited review for the Proceedings of the XXth Moriond Astrophysics Meeting "Cosmological Physics with Gravitational Lensing", eds. J.-P. Kneib, Y. Mellier, M. Moniez and J. Tran Thanh Van, Les Arcs, France, March 11th-18th 2000
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