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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

A new population of extended, luminous globular clusters has recently been discovered in the outskirts of M31. These objects have luminosities typical of classical globular clusters, but much larger half-light radii. We report the first…

An outstanding question is whether the $\alpha$/Fe bimodality exists in disk galaxies other than in the Milky Way. Here we present a bimodality using our state-of-the-art galactic chemical evolution models that can explain various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-06 Chiaki Kobayashi , Souradeep Bhattacharya , Magda Arnaboldi , Ortwin Gerhard

Observations of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies can be used to study a variety of topics, including the structure of dark matter halos and the history of vigorous star formation in low-mass galaxies. We report on the properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-13 Nelson Caldwell , Jay Strader , David J. Sand , Anil C. Seth , Beth Willman

We study the resolved stellar populations of dwarf galaxies in the nearby Centaurus A/M83 group of galaxies. Our goal is to characterize their evolutionary history and to investigate eventual similarities or differences with the dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Crnojević , E. K. Grebel , A. A. Cole

The Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the most nearby giant spiral galaxy, an opportunity to study with high resolution dynamical phenomena occurring in nuclear disks and bulges, able to explain star formation quenching, and galaxy evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-29 Lucie Cros , Françoise Combes , Anne-Laure Melchior , Thomas Martin

We use a sample of newly-discovered globular clusters from the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) in combination with previously-catalogued objects to map the spatial distribution of globular clusters in the M31 halo. At projected…

We present results from a large spectroscopic survey of M31 red giants using the Keck telescope/DEIMOS. Photometric pre-screening, based on the 100A-wide DDO51 band centered on the Mgb/MgH feature, was used to select spectroscopic targets.…

Dwarf galaxies ($M_{*}/M_{\odot} \lesssim 10^{9.5}$), being sensitive to key evolutionary drivers like baryonic feedback and tidal perturbation, are crucial for understanding galaxy evolution as a whole. Their abundance and faintness,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 A. E. Watkins , I. Lazar , T. Sedgwick , G. Martin , S. Kaviraj , D. Kakkad , C. Collins , B. Bichang'a

Although the proximity of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) offers an opportunity to understand how mergers affect galaxies, uncertainty remains about M31's most important mergers. Previous studies focused individually on the giant stellar stream…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Richard D'Souza , Eric F. Bell

A new, 2.8 deg^2 J,H,K_s infrared survey from the 2MASS 6x program across the extent of the optical disk of the Andromeda (M31) galaxy provides a clear view of the M31 center almost completely unfettered by dust extinction, and reveals a…

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nearest grand-design spiral galaxy. Thus far most studies in the radio regime concentrated on the 10 kpc ring. The central region of M31 has significantly different properties than the outer parts: The star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 René Gießübel , Rainer Beck

We construct test-particle orbits and simple N-body models that match the properties of the giant stellar stream observed to the south of M31, using the model of M31's potential derived in the companion paper by Geehan et al. (2006). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Fardal , A. Babul , J. J. Geehan , P. Guhathakurta

The Giant GAlaxies, Dwarfs, and Debris Survey concentrates on the nearby universe to study how galaxies have interacted in groups of different morphology, density, and richness. In these groups we select the dominant spiral galaxy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Johannes Ludwig , Anna Pasquali , Eva K. Grebel , John S. Gallagher

The globular clusters of large spiral galaxies can be divided into two populations: one which formed in-situ and one which comprises clusters tidally stripped away from other galaxies. In this paper we investigate the contribution to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Eric P. Andersson , Melvyn B. Davies

The Andromeda galaxy (M31) is our closest neighbouring spiral galaxy, making it an ideal target for studying the physics of the interstellar medium in a galaxy very similar to our own. Using new observations of M31 at 4.76GHz by the C-Band…

With a luminosity similar to that of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal (dSph) systems like Sextans, but a spatial extent similar to that of ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs), Andromeda (And) XIX is an unusual satellite of M31. To investigate the origin…

We report R- and V-band photometry derived from CCD imaging for objects in nine fields in and around the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The most distant fields are about 1.3 degrees from the center. We use these data to search for Draco…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Slawomir Piatek , Carlton Pryor , Taft E. Armandroff , Edward W. Olszewski

We present a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) for a minor-axis field in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), 51 arcmin (11 kpc) from the nucleus. These observations, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space…