Astrophysical: Andromeda Galaxy

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    A giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda Galaxy
    An international team of astrophysicists that includes researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has...
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    DESI Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy: Revealing the Immigration History of Our Nearest Neighbor
    We present Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) observations of the inner halo of M31, which reveal the kinematics of a recent merger-a galactic...
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    Near-infrared mapping of M31
    Moderate resolution near-infrared mapping of the M31 bulge component is presented, and the structure, and radial color index and surface brightness variations...
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    Near-infrared mapping of spiral galaxies. II - J, H, K profiles of M 31
    Four radial profiles of M 31 in the near infrared taken with the 1.5 m infrared telescope of the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife are presented. Three of these...
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    Observing the Stellar Halo of Andromeda in Cosmological Simulations: The AURIGA2PANDAS Pipeline
    We present a direct comparison of the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) observations of the stellar halo of M31 with the stellar halos of six...
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    Parameter estimates for the orbits of M 32 and NGC 205 about the centre of mass of the M 31 system
    The authors used simple kinematic, dynamic and geometrical assumptions to infer the orbital parameters of M32 and NGC 205 about M31. They find that both...
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    The Accretion Mode in Sub-Eddington Supermassive Black Holes: Getting into the Central Parsecs of Andromeda
    The inner kiloparsec regions surrounding sub-Eddington (luminosity less than 10 -3 in Eddington units, L Edd) supermassive black holes (BHs) often show a...
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    The PAndAS View of the Andromeda Satellite System. III. Dwarf Galaxy Detection Limits
    We determine the detection limits of the search for dwarf galaxies in the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) using the algorithm developed by the...
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    The PAndAS View of the Andromeda Satellite System. IV. Global Properties
    We build a statistical framework to infer the global properties of the satellite system of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) from the properties of individual dwarf...