PAndromeda—FIRST RESULTS FROM THE HIGH-CADENCE MONITORING OF M31 WITH Pan-STARRS 1
PAndromeda—FIRST RESULTS FROM THE HIGH-CADENCE MONITORING OF M31 WITH Pan-STARRS 1
The Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) survey of M31 (PAndromeda) is designed to identify gravitational microlensing events, caused by bulge and disk stars (self-lensing) and by compact matter in the halos of M31 and the Milky Way (halo lensing, or lensing by MACHOs). With the 7 deg2 FOV of PS1, the entire …