Chemical Abundance Patterns in Red Giant Branch Stars in the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy

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Dec 2005

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #135.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1387

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This paper presents high S/N spectra of red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Andromeda spiral galaxy (M31) obtained as part of our Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic survey. The spectra cover the wavelength range ˜ 6500-9000Å and have a resolution (FWHM) of about 1.3Å or R ˜ 7000. We explore chemical abundance patterns among the most metal poor of M31's RGB stars. Stars are grouped according to their position in a color-magnitude diagram and their spectra are coadded to achieve higher S/N. The groupings are done separately for members of different structural components within M31: inner spheroid, outer halo, disk, giant southern stream, dwarf satellites, etc. This allows us to carry out a comparative study of the chemical enrichment histories of various subcomponents within M31.
P.G. acknowledges support from NSF grant AST-0307966. Data presented herein were obtained at the W.M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among Caltech, the Univ of California and NASA. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W.M. Keck Foundation.

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