Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publication Title

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volume

346

Issue Number

4

First Page

L62

Last Page

L66

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2003.07367.x

Disciplines

Astrophysics and Astronomy

Abstract

We present a possible orbit for the Southern Stream of stars in M31, which connects it to the Northern Spur. Support for this model comes from the dynamics of planetary nebulae (PNe) in the disc of M31: analysis of a new sample of 2611 PNe obtained using the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph reveals ∼20 objects with kinematics inconsistent with the normal components of the galaxy, but which lie at the right positions and velocities to connect the two photometric features via this orbit. The satellite galaxy M32 is coincident with the stream both in position and velocity, adding weight to the hypothesis that the stream comprises its tidal debris.

Comments

Copyright © 2003 Oxford University Press. The published article may be found at :http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2003.07367.x.

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