Lighting up the dark and dim in the Andromeda Galaxy
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I discuss current and future applications of pixel lensing: the microlensing of unresolved stars. Pixel lensing is the tool of choice for studying the Macho dark matter content of external galaxies like Andromeda (M31), and is at the heart of an ambitious new proposal to undertake a census of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in the M31 bulge.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0310801,
title = {Lighting up the dark and dim in the Andromeda Galaxy},
author = {Eamonn Kerins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0310801},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages. To appear in IAU Symposium 220, "Dark Matter in Galaxies", eds. S. Ryder, D.J. Pisano, M. walker & K. Freeman, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac