THE LUMINOSITY PROFILE AND STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS OF THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY

THE LUMINOSITY PROFILE AND STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS OF THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY

We have constructed an extended composite luminosity profile for the Andromeda galaxy, M31, and have decomposed it into three basic luminous structural components: a bulge, a disk, and a halo. The dust-free Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) imaging and extended spatial coverage of ground-based op...

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Main Authors: Courteau, Stephane, Widrow, Lawrence M., McDonald, Michael A., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Gilbert, Karoline M., Zhu, Yucong, Beaton, Rachael Lynn, Majewski, Steven R.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95906

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