Deep Photometry in a Remote M31 Major Axis Field Near G1

Details Deep Photometry in a Remote M31 Major Axis Field Near G1 Deep Photometry in a Remote M31 Major Axis Field Near G1

2003-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309296v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 3 figures. accepted for publication in the AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/382108

We present photometry from Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 parallel imagery of a remote M31 field at a projected distance of about 34 kpc from the nucleus near the SW major axis. This field is near the globular cluster G1, and near one of the candidate tidal plumes identified by Ferguson et al. (2002). The F606W (V) and F814W (I) images were obtained in parallel with Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph spectroscopy of G1 (GO-9099) and total 7.11 hours of integration time -- the deepest HST field in the outer disk of M31 to date, reaching to V ~ 28. The color-magnitude diagram of the field shows a clearly-defined red clump at V = 25.25 and a red giant branch consistent with [Fe/H] ~ -0.7. The lack of a blue horizontal branch contrasts with other M31 halo fields, the Andromeda dwarf spheroidals, and with the nearby globular cluster G1. Comparing the observed luminosity function to the Padova models, we find that at least some of the stellar population must be younger than 6 - 8 Gyr. The outermost detected neutral hydrogen gas disk of M31 lies only 2 kpc in projection from our field. The finding that some giants in the field have radial velocities close to that of the neutral hydrogen gas (Reitzel, Guhathakurta, & Rich 2003) leads us to conclude that our field samples the old, low-surface-brightness disk rather than the true Population II spheroid.

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