{
  "id": "1108.4187",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2011-08-21T16:11:34.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-09-30T22:19:18.000Z",
  "title": "Simulation of a strategy for the pixel lensing of M87 using the Hubble Space Telescope",
  "authors": [
    "Sedighe Sajadian",
    "Sohrab Rahvar"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 9 figures, accepted in MNRAS",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.GA",
    "astro-ph.CO"
  ],
  "abstract": "In this work, we propose a new strategy for the pixel-lensing observation of M87 in the Virgo cluster using the {\\it Hubble Space Telescope} (HST). In contrast to the previous observational strategy by Baltz et al., we show that a few days intensive observation with the duration of $\\sim 90 $min in each HST orbit will increase the observational efficiency of the high-magnification events by more than one order of magnitude. We perform a Monte-Carlo simulation for this strategy and we show that the number of high magnification microlensing events will increase at the rate of 4.2 event per day with a typical transit time scale of 16 h. We also examine the possibility of observing mini-halo dark matter structures using pixel lensing.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-09-30T22:19:18.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "hubble space telescope",
      "pixel lensing",
      "simulation",
      "observing mini-halo dark matter structures",
      "typical transit time scale"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19671.x",
      "journal": "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Jan",
      "volume": 419,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 124
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 924642,
      "adsabs": "2012MNRAS.419..124S"
    }
  }
}