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If galactic halos are baryonic, they comprise either brown dwarfs or black holes. The first possibility can be tested by microlensing observations, the second by searches for an infrared background.
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Carr, B.J. (1991). Are Galactic Halos Made of Brown Dwarfs or Black Holes?. In: Shanks, T., Banday, A.J., Ellis, R.S., Frenk, C.S., Wolfendale, A.W. (eds) Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation. NATO ASI Series, vol 348. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3510-8_10
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