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Large scale surveys of Andromedas resolved stellar populations have revolutionized our view of this galaxy over the past decade. The combination of large-scale, contiguous photometric surveys and pointed spectroscopic surveys has been particularly powerful for discovering substructure and disentangling the structural components of Andromeda. The SPLASH (Spectroscopic and Photometric Landscape of Andromedas Stellar Halo) survey consists of broad- and narrow-band imaging and spectroscopy of red giant branch stars in lines of sight ranging in distance from 2 kpc to more than 200 kpc from Andromedas center. The SPLASH data reveal a power-law surface brightness profile extending to at least two-thirds of Andromedas virial radius (Gilbert et al. 2012), a metallicity gradient extending to at least 100 kpc from Andromedas center (Gilbert et al. 2014), and evidence of a significant population of heated disk stars in Andromedas inner halo (Dorman et al. 2013). We are also using the velocity distribution of halo stars to measure the tangential motion of Andromeda (Beaton et al., in prep).
Measurements of [Fe/H] and [$alpha$/Fe] can probe the minor merging history of a galaxy, providing a direct way to test the hierarchical assembly paradigm. While measurements of [$alpha$/Fe] have been made in the stellar halo of the Milky Way, little
We present a new analysis of the LAMOST DR1 survey spectral database performed with the code SP_Ace, which provides the derived stellar parameters T$_{rm eff}$, log (g), [Fe/H], and [$alpha$/Fe] for 1,097,231 stellar objects. We tested the reliabilit
We analyzed series of spectra obtained for twelve stable RRc stars observed with the echelle spectro- graph of the du Pont telescope at Las Campanas Observatory and we analyzed the spectra of RRc Blazhko stars discussed by Govea et al. (2014). We der
Aims: We study the relations between stellar kinematics and chemical abundances of a large sample of RAVE giants in search for selection criteria needed for disentangling different Galactic stellar populations. Methods: We select a sample of 2167 gia
We combine asteroseismology, optical high-resolution spectroscopy, and kinematic analysis for 26 halo red giant branch stars in the textit{Kepler} field in the range of $-2.5<[mathrm{{Fe}/{H}}]<-0.6$. After applying theoretically motivated correction