ANDROMEDA (M31) OPTICAL AND INFRARED DISK SURVEY. I. INSIGHTS IN WIDE-FIELD NEAR-IR SURFACE PHOTOMETRY

We present wide-field near-infrared J and K[subscript s] images of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) taken with WIRCam at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope as part of the Andromeda Optical and Infrared Disk Survey. This data set allows simultaneous observations of resolved stars and near-infrared (NIR) su...

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Main Authors: Sick, Jonathan, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles, de Jong, Roelof, Tully, R. Brent, McDonald, Michael A., Courteau, Stephane
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92933