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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 7.

Heliocentric velocity (v helio) vs. photometric metallicity ([Fe/H]phot) for M31 RGB stars (black points) in the NE shelf fields, where projected M31-centric radius (R proj) increases from left to right and top to bottom. We show the 1σ (2σ) radial velocity range of KCC1 (red) and KCC2 (orange) (Table 3; Figure 5) as dark (light) shaded regions. The [Fe/H]phot distributions across the various NE shelf substructure components are similar. Stars assigned to the stellar halo component also have similar [Fe/H]phot to the NE shelf.

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