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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 4.

Photometric metallicity ([Fe/H]phot; top), spectroscopic calcium-triplet-based metallicity ([Fe/H]CaT; middle), and the summed equivalent width of the Na I λ8190 doublet (EWNa; bottom) vs. heliocentric velocity for stars in the NE shelf fields (Table 1) classified as M31 RGB stars (red circles) and MW stars (gray crosses; Section 3.1). Stars in the NE3 velocity peak (Figure 3) are outlined in black. We show [Fe/H]CaT (EWNa) measurements with uncertainties δ[Fe/H]CaT < 0.8 (δEWNa < 2 Å), where the large uncertainties are due to the low spectral S/N. Neither [Fe/H]phot nor [Fe/H]CaT is physically meaningful for MW stars, but they are useful as population diagnostics.

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