Issue |
A&A
Volume 389, Number 3, July III 2002
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Page(s) | L69 - L73 | |
Section | Letters | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020827 | |
Published online | 01 July 2002 |
Letter to the Editor
EROS 2 proper motion survey: Constraints on the halo white dwarfs*
1
CEA, DSM, DAPNIA, Centre d'Études de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
2
Collège de France, Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie, IN2P3 CNRS, 11 pl. M. Berthelot, 75231 Paris Cedex, France
3
NMSU, Department of Astronomy, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
4
DASGAL, 77 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
5
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, IN2P3 CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
6
Astronomical Observatory, Copenhagen University, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
7
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, INSU CNRS, 98bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
8
LESIA, Observatoire de Meudon, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
9
ESO, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
10
Ohio State University, Department of Astronomy, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
11
University of Michigan, Department of Astronomy, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
12
LPNHE, IN2P3-CNRS-Universités Paris VI et VII, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
13
Observatoire de Marseille, 2 pl. Le Verrier, 13248 Marseille Cedex 04, France
Corresponding author: B.Goldman, bgoldman@nmsu.edu.
Received:
4
March
2002
Accepted:
3
June
2002
We are conducting a
proper motion survey in the ~V and I
bands in order to determine the cool white dwarf
contribution to the Galactic dark matter. Using the
for which we possess three epochs, and
applying selection criteria designed to isolate
halo-type objects,
we find no candidates in a
effective volume for old, fast MV=17 white dwarfs.
We check the detection efficiency
by cross-matching our catalogue with Luyten's NLTT catalogue.
The halo white dwarf contribution cannot exceed
5% (95% C.L.) for objects with and .
The same conclusion applies to a 14 Gyr halo composed of white dwarfs
with hydrogen atmosphere, as modeled by Chabrier.
Key words: Galaxy: halo / Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics / dark matter / white dwarfs
© ESO, 2002
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