The Andromeda Stream: A Giant Trail of Tidal Stellar Debris in the Halo of M31

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Oct 2001

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The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 5, p. 3-5.

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Andromeda Galaxy, M31, Galactic Trail

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Our panoramic wide field imaging survey of M31 using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) on the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) has unambiguously revealed the presence of a giant stellar stream within M31's halo (Ibata et al., 2001, Nature, 412, 49). The source of the stream is likely to be either, or both, of the peculiar dwarf galaxies M32 and NGC205, close companions of M31, which may have lost a substantial amount of stars, gas and dust due to their tidal interactions with the massive host galaxy.

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