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Dynamics and Stellar Content of the Giant Southern Stream in M31. II. Interpretation

Dynamics and Stellar Content of the Giant Southern Stream in M31. II. Interpretation

We examine the nature of the progenitor of the giant stellar stream in M31 using as constraints new radial velocity measurements of stream red giant stars (presented in the companion paper by Guhathakurta and coworkers) along with other M31 data sets available in the literature. We find that the observations …