Abstract
Three experiments are now searching for galactic dark matter in the form of compact objects through gravitational microlensing. All have reported candidate events. We will describe here the gravitational microlensing effect, the specifics of each experiment, and discuss their present results.
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Aubourg, É. (1995). A Review of Gravitational Microlensing Experiments. In: Tinney, C.G. (eds) The Bottom of the Main Sequence — And Beyond. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49217-7_42
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