2 papers
astro-ph.CO2026
Microlensing of fast and slow compact objects
Manish Tamta, Nirmal Raj, Himanshu Verma
Gravitational microlensing constraints on non-standard compact objects are conventionally derived assuming lenses trace the dark matter halo with velocities following a Maxwell-Bol…
astro-ph.HE2025
Breaking into the window of primordial black hole dark matter with x-ray microlensing
Manish Tamta, Nirmal Raj, Prateek Sharma
Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range may constitute all the dark matter. We show that gravitational microlensing of bright x-ray pulsars prov…