Gravitational microlensing and the galactic halo

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4138-4176

  Gates, Evalyn I ^a,b   Gyuk, Geza ^b,c   Turner, Michael S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0000823331     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.4138     Document Type: Article

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