2011

PAndromeda - first results from the high-cadence monitoring of M31 with Pan-STARRS 1

Lee, C. -H., Riffeser, A., Koppenhoefer, J. et al.

Understand

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 disk of M31 can be imaged with one single pointing.
Our aim is to monitor M31 with this wide FOV with daily sampling (20 mins/day).
In the 2010 season we acquired in total 91 nights towards M31, with 90 nights in the rP1 and 66 nights in the iP1.

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