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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.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Color–magnitude diagrams of spectroscopic targets with radial velocity measurements, color-coded according to spectroscopic metallicity measurements based on the equivalent width of the Ca II triplet. Typical photometric errors as a function of I magnitude are shown on the left. Gray curves represent isochrones for t = 10 Gyr and [α/Fe] =0.0, with the most metal-poor model having [Fe/H] =−2.3 (left) and the most metal-rich model having [Fe/H] =0.49 (right). The bold isochrones have metallicities of one-tenth Solar ([Fe/H] =−1.0) and Solar ([Fe/H] =0.0). Membership determination is performed using the Gilbert et al. (2006) diagnostic method, summarized in Section 2.3.

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