A Binary Lensing Event Toward the LMC: Observations and Dark Matter Implications
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Center for Particle Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Supercomputing Facility, Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Obs., Australian National Univ., Weston, ACT 2611, Australia Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0350 European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, U.K. Departments of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada L8S 4M1
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تاریخ انتشار 1996