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Gravitational microlensing of stars in the Galactic bulge is proposed as a method of probing the mass density of disk objects in the 10^-3^ to 10^-1^ Mₛun _ range. A substantial rate is found if disk dark matter of this form exists, and even without any dark matter, a significant microlensing rate is found, owing to the faint low-mass disk stars which are known to exist. Such a search would provide new information on the disk dark matter question, probe the low-end stellar mass function, and also search for halo dark matter, all with rates comparable to those expected for the ongoing LMC microlensing halo dark matter searches.
Griest et al. (Wed,) studied this question.