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Jul 2004
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HST Proposal ID #10265
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Hst Proposal Id #10265 Stellar Populations
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We propose deep observations of Andromeda's outer disk and giant tidal stream, to reconstruct their star formation histories. As the nearest giant galaxy, Andromeda offers the best testing ground for understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Given the dramatic increase in sensitivity offered by the ACS, we can now resolve stars on the old main sequence in the other giant spiral of the Local Group, and employ the same direct age diagnostics that have been used for decades in the study of Galactic globular clusters. In Cycle 11, we successfully observed a field in the Andromeda halo and constructed a deep color-magnitude diagram reaching well below the oldest main sequence turnoff. In Cycle 13, we propose to extend these observations to the outer disk and tidal stream of Andromeda, to constrain their star formation histories and compare them to that of the halo. The combined observations from these two programs will offer a dramatic advance in our understanding of the overall evolution of spiral galaxies.
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