POINT-AGAPE
(Pixel-lensing Observations with the Isaac Newton Telescope-Andromeda Galaxy Amplified Pixels Experiment)
(survey of M31 for microlensing)
The POINT-AGAPE survey
(Pixel-lensing Observations with the Isaac Newton Telescope-Andromeda Galaxy Amplified Pixels Experiment)
was carried out in 1999-2001, monitoring Andromeda (M31) stars
for transients that could be gravitational microlensing
by MACHOs, to test models of dark matter.
If MACHOs make up the dark matter halos of the Milky Way
and M31, then stars in M31 would show rare-but-occasional
microlensing.
POINT-AGAPE began as a project called AGAPE,
Andromeda Galaxy Amplified Pixels Experiment, which tested some
of the methodology, and was renamed when the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) became
involved.
POINT-AGAPE produced some MACHO candidates and also discovered other
transients of astronomical interest, such as novae.
(survey,microlensing,transients,past,MACHOs,M31)
Further reading:
http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/SH/SH2006/agape.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005A%26A...443..911C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001MNRAS.323...13K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001ASPC..239..309K/abstract
Prefix | Example | | |
PA | PA-00-S3 | | |
POINT-AGAPE | POINT-AGAPE-S3 | | |
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Referenced by page:
dark matter detector
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