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EROS

(Expérience pour la Recherche d'Objets Sombres)
(search for MACHOs)

EROS (for Expérience pour la Recherche d'Objets Sombres, i.e., Experience in Searching for Dark Objects) was a survey to identify MACHOs, i.e., dark matter in the form of brown dwarfs or field planets, by searching for gravitational microlensing events while watching stars in the Magellanic Clouds. EROS-1 observations were carried out in 1990-1995 and EROS-2 in 1996-2003, by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the La Silla Observatory (LSO) site. Some variable stars and supernovae were observed. Similar projects have been the MACHO Project and OGLE.


(survey,microlensing,SMC,LMC,past,MACHOs,transients)
Further reading:
http://eros.in2p3.fr/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999IAUS..190..313B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007A%26A...469..387T/abstract
PrefixExample  
ELHCELHC 10"EROS LMC HAeBe Candidate"
EROSEROS 1044 

Referenced by pages:
dark matter detector
MACHO Project
OGLE

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