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Global Properties of M31's Stellar Halo from the SPLASH Survey. II. Metallicity Profile

  • Authors: Karoline M. Gilbert, Jason S. Kalirai, Puragra Guhathakurta, Rachael L. Beaton, Marla C. Geha, Evan N. Kirby, Steven R. Majewski, Richard J. Patterson, Erik J. Tollerud, James S. Bullock, Mikito Tanaka, and Masashi Chiba

Gilbert et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal 796 76.

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Caption: Figure 11.

Median photometric metallicity of all M31 stars in each field, along with the linear fit to the median field values (solid line), calculated using the nominal 10 Gyr, [α/Fe] =0.0 VandenBerg et al. (2006) isochrones. Error bars show the error in the median value of each field. The dashed and dotted lines show the linear least-squares fits to the median metallicity estimates in each field calculated using alternative methods: 10 Gyr, [α/Fe] =0.3 isochrones (red dashed line), 5 Gyr, [α/Fe] =0.0 isochrones (blue dotted line), and spectroscopic metallicity estimates based on the Ca II triplet EW (purple dot-dashed line).

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