Microlensing, Newton-Einstein Gravity and Conformal Gravity

Abstract

We discuss some implications of the current round of galactic dark matter searches for galactic rotation curve systematics and dynamics, and show that these new data do not invalidate the conformal gravity program of Mannheim and Kazanas which has been advanced as a candidate alternative to both the standard second order Newton-Einstein theory and the need for dark matter.

Plain TeX, 4 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the Fifth Annual Astrophysics Conference in Maryland