Novae In External Galaxies From The POINT-AGAPE Survey And The Liverpool Telescope

Abstract

We have recently begun a search for Classical Novae in M31 using three years of multicolour data taken by the POINT-AGAPE microlensing collaboration with the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) on La Palma. This is a pilot program leading to the use of the Liverpool Telescope (LT) to systematically search for and follow novae of all speed classes in external galaxies to distances up to around 5Mpc.

5 pages, 4 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference ``Classical Nova Explosions'', M. Hernanz and J. Jose eds., American Inst. of Physics, 2002