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Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31

Annette Ferguson

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0108233

Abstract

We discuss the first results from ongoing studies of the resolved stellar populations in the outskirts of our nearest large neighbour, M31. Deep HST/WFPC2 archival observations are used to construct colour-magnitude-diagrams which reach well below the horizontal branch at selected locations in the outer disk and halo, while a panoramic ground-based imaging survey maps spatial density variations through resolved star counts to a projected radius of ~50 kpc.

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