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astro-ph.CO2011★ 3 cited
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…
astro-ph.SR2011★ 18 cited
Extremely metal-poor stars in SDSS fields
Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau, Patrick François +12
Some insight on the first generation of stars can be obtained from the chemical composition of their direct descendants, extremely metal-poor stars (EMP), with metallicity less tha…