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High-contrast imaging of debris disk systems permits us to assess the composition and size distribution of circumstellar dust, to probe recent dynamical histories, and to directly detect and characterize embedded exoplanets. Observations of…

We present a new catalogue of 578 OB cluster (OBC) candidates in the Andromeda galaxy (M31), identified using a MeanShift-based algorithm on HST's F275W-band imaging from the PHAT (Dalcanton et al. 2012) and PHAST (Chen et al. 2025) Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Yuan Liang , Guang-Wei Li , Chao-Wei Tsai , Jingwen Wu

The upper region of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is populated by massive stars in a diversity of evolutionary stages, and the classification of these stars is often based on observed characteristics exclusively in the optical spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Michaela Kraus , Maria Laura Arias , Michalis Kourniotis , Andrea Torres , Lydia S. Cidale , Marcelo Borges Fernandes

We present the properties of Milky Way- and Andromeda-like (MW/M31-like) galaxies simulated within TNG50, the highest-resolution run of the IllustrisTNG suite of $\Lambda$CDM magneto-hydrodynamical simulations. We introduce our fiducial…

We present a deep photometric survey of M31, conducted with the CFHT and INT, covering the inner 50 kpc of the galaxy, the Southern quadrant out to 150 kpc, and extending to M33. This is the first systematic panoramic study of this very…

As the nearest large spiral galaxy, M31 provides a unique opportunity to learn about the structure and evolutionary history of this galaxy type in great detail. Among the many observing programs aimed at M31 are microlensing studies, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Michael Opitsch , Maximilian H. Fabricius , Roberto P. Saglia , Ralf Bender , Matias Blaña , Ortwin Gerhard

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mapped the entire sky at mid-infrared wavelengths 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. The mission was primarily designed to extract point sources, leaving resolved and extended sources unexplored. We…

We present 2MASS $JHK_{\rm s}$ photometry for 913 star clusters and candidates in the field of M31, which are selected from the latest Revised Bologna Catalog of M31 globular clusters (GCs) and candidates. The photometric measurements in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-04-18 Song Wang , Jun Ma , Zhenyu Wu , Xu Zhou

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a 104 square degree survey of the Virgo Cluster, carried out using the MegaPrime camera of the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, from semesters 2009A-2012A. The survey will provide coverage of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nicholas M. Ball

We present the first results of the analysis of data collected during the 1998-99 observational campaign at the 1.3 meter McGraw-Hill Telescope, towards the Andromeda galaxy (M31), aimed to the detection of gravitational microlensing…

We present a resolved-star spectroscopic survey of 15 dwarf spheroidal (dSph) satellites of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) as part of the Spectroscopic and Photometric Landscape of Andromeda's Stellar Halo (SPLASH) project. We filter foreground…

We use data from the Isaac Newton Telescope Wide Field Camera survey of M31 to determine the surface brightness profile of M31 along the south-east minor axis. We combine surface photometry and faint red giant branch star counts to trace…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mike Irwin , Annette Ferguson , Rodrigo Ibata , Geraint Lewis , Nial Tanvir

We create a model for recovering the intrinsic, absorption-corrected surface brightness distribution of a galaxy and apply the model to the M31. We construct a galactic model as a superposition of axially symmetric stellar components and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-02 Elmo Tempel , Antti Tamm , Peeter Tenjes

We present a new analysis of the potential power of deep, near-infrared, imaging surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to improve our knowledge of galaxy evolution. In this work we properly simulate what can be achieved with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 T. W. Kemp , J. S. Dunlop , R. J. McLure , C. Schreiber , A. C. Carnall , F. Cullen

With the exceptional sensitivity of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we conducted observations of the neutral hydrogen (HI) in the circumgalactic medium of Andromeda's (M31) satellite galaxies, specifically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Ziming Liu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Chen Xu , Tiantian Liang , Qingze Chen , Zerui Liu , Zhipeng Hou , Yougang Wang

Before having exhausted the helium in its tank on April 8, 1998, the Infrared Space Observatory had time to perform several complementary surveys at various depths and areas within selected regions of the sky. We present the results of some…

Detailed studies of stellar populations in the halos of the Milky Way and the Andromeda (M 31) galaxies have shown increasing numbers of tidal streams and dwarf galaxies, attesting to a complicated and on-going process of hierarchical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Andreas Koch , Charles W. Danforth , R. Michael Rich , Rodrigo Ibata , Brian A. Keeney

X-ray binaries (XRBs) are probes of both star formation and stellar mass, but more importantly remain one of the only direct tracers of the compact object population. To investigate the XRB population in M31, we utilized all 121 publicly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Vulic , S. C. Gallagher , P. Barmby

The interaction between an accreting satellite and the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been studied analytically and numerically, using a high-resolution N-body simulation with $4\times10^7$ particles. For the first time, we show the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masao Mori , R. Michael Rich

We report the discovery of a new dwarf spheroidal galaxy near M31 based on INT/WFC imaging. The system, Andromeda XVII (And XVII), is located at a projected radius of ~44 kpc from M31 and has a line-of-sight distance of 794+/-40 kpc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mike Irwin , Annette Ferguson , Avon Huxor , Nial Tanvir , Rodrigo Ibata , Geraint Lewis