Observations of the Great Andromeda Galaxy
A special issue of Galaxies (ISSN 2075-4434).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 346
Special Issue Editor
Interests: time-domain studies; gravitational lensing; exoplanet
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
M31, our neighboring galaxy, provides tremendous leverage on the studies of stellar astrophysics, galaxy formation and evolution, and cosmology. Thanks to the recent progress of the wide-field camera and spectrograph, we are now able to obtain a panoramic view of M31 from, e.g., PHAT, SPLASH, PAndAS, PAndromeda, and PTF surveys, to name a few. With future wide, deep, and fast surveys on the horizon, it is time to examine the extensive M31 data that we have gathered so far, and to use these data to explore the variables and transients that reside in M31 to set up a model for the time–domain studies with LSST, as well as to probe galaxy properties and the dwarf galaxies and substructures associated with M31, to serve as a local benchmark to study distant galaxies that will be observed by giant segmented-mirror telescopes.
Dr. Chien-Hsiu Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- stellar properties
- galaxy formation and evolution
- cosmology
- gravitational lensing
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