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Kinematics and Metallicity of Red Giant Branch Stars in the Northeast Shelf of M31

  • Authors: Ivanna Escala, Karoline M. Gilbert, Mark Fardal, Puragra Guhathakurta, Robyn E. Sanderson, Jason S. Kalirai, Bahram Mobasher

Ivanna Escala et al 2022 The Astronomical Journal 164 .

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Caption: Figure 10.

Similar to Figure 8, except comparing the predictions of N-body models (Fardal et al. 2007, 2012) in the NE shelf region for the formation of the GSS to observations of RGB stars (black points; this work) and PNs (blue open triangles; Merrett et al. 2003, 2006). The models contain a combined bulge, disk, and halo component for the host (orange points) and a satellite component corresponding to GSS-related tidal debris (red points). We show models for a merger remnant with (left panel) and without (right panel) an intact core. The observed projected phase-space distribution of the NE shelf broadly agrees with that of a tidal shell formed from a radial merger with the GSS progenitor, where the model with a completely disrupted progenitor provides a better match (Section 4.2).

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