Planetary Nebula Velocities in the Disk and Bulge of M31

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2006-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603706v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:97-119,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10364.x

We present radial velocities for a sample of 723 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the disk and bulge of M31, measured using the WYFFOS fibre spectrograph on the William Herschel telescope. Velocities are determined using the [OIII] 5007 Angstrom emission line. Rotation and velocity dispersion are measured to a radius of 50 arcminutes (11.5 kpc), the first stellar rotation curve and velocity dispersion profile for M31 to such a radius. Our kinematics are consistent with rotational support at radii well beyond the bulge effective radius of 1.4kpc, although our data beyond a radius of 5kpc are limited. We present tentative evidence for kinematic substructure in the bulge of M31 to be studied fully in a later work. This paper is part of an ongoing project to constrain the total mass, mass distribution and velocity anisotropy of the disk, bulge and halo of M31.

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