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The vast thin plane of M31 co-rotating dwarfs: an additional fossil signature of the M31 merger and of its considerable impact in the whole Local Group
François Hammer, Yanbin Yang, Sylvain Fouquet +5
The recent discovery by Ibata et al. (2013) of a vast thin disk of satellites (VTDS) around M31 offers a new challenge for the understanding of the Local Group properties. This com…
Loops formed by tidal tails as fossil records of a major merger
J. Wang, F. Hammer, E. Athanassoula +3
Many haloes of nearby disc galaxies contain faint and extended features, including loops, which are often interpreted as relics of satellite infall in the main galaxy's potential w…
Could M31 be the result of a major merger?
Sylvain Fouquet, François Hammer, Yang-Bin Yang +3
We investigated a scenario in which M31 could be the remnant of a gas-rich major merger. Galaxy merger simulations, highly constrained by observations, were run using GADGET 2 in o…