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Lighting up the dark and dim in the Andromeda Galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Eamonn Kerins
Eamonn Kerins*
Affiliation:
Astrophys. Research Inst., Liverpool JMU, Birkenhead CH41 1LD, UK

Abstract

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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.

Type
Part 4: Lensing
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 220: Dark Matter in Galaxies , 2004 , pp. 129 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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