Abstract
Tidal streams from existing and destroyed satellite galaxies populate the outer regions of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). This inhomogeneous debris can be studied without of many of the obstacles that plague Milky Way research. We review the history of tidal stream research in M31, and in its main satellite galaxies. We highlight the numerous tidal streams observed around M31, some of which reside at projected distances of up to \(\sim 120\) kpc from the center of this galaxy. Most notable is the Giant Stellar Stream, a signature of the most recent significant accretion event in the M31 system. This event involved an early-type progenitor of mass \(\sim 10^{9}\) M\(_{\odot }\) that came within a few kpc of M31’s center roughly a gigayear ago; almost all of the inner halo (R ≤ 50 kpc) debris in M31 can be tied either directly or indirectly to this event. We draw attention to the fact that most of M31’s outer halo globular clusters lie preferentially on tidal streams and discuss the potential this offers to use these systems as probes of the accretion history. Tidal features observed around M33, M32, NGC 205 and NGC 147 are also reviewed. We conclude by discussing future prospects for this field.
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In practice, individual distances to large samples of stars in the Milky Way are crude at the moment. ESA’s Gaia mission will change this when it starts to deliver data in 2016 but the most accurate distances will be limited to stars within roughly 10 kpc of the Sun.
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Meanwhile, Block et al. (2006) argue that a head-on collision between M31 and M32 about 200 million years ago could be responsible for the formation of two off-center rings of ongoing star formation seen in the M31 disk.
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We thank Edouard Bernard and Jovan Veljanoski for their help in creating Figs. 8.7 and 8.8. AMNF acknowledges support from an STFC Consolidated Grant (ST/J001422/1) and the hospitality of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias while completing this chapter. ADM is grateful for support from the Australian Research Council through Discovery Projects DP1093431, DP120101237, and DP150103294.
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Ferguson, A.M.N., Mackey, A.D. (2016). Substructure and Tidal Streams in the Andromeda Galaxy and its Satellites. In: Newberg, H., Carlin, J. (eds) Tidal Streams in the Local Group and Beyond. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 420. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19336-6_8
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