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Williams, Benjamin F.; Dalcanton, Julianne J.; Weisz, Daniel R.; Lewis, Alexia R.; Choi, Yumi; Dolphin, Andrew E.; Bell, Eric F.; Rosenfield, Philip; Skillman, Evan; Monachesi, Antonela, E-mail: ben@astro.washington.edu, E-mail: jd@astro.washington.edu, E-mail: adolphin@raytheon.com, E-mail: dweisz@berkeley.edu, E-mail: ericbell@umich.edu, E-mail: lewis.1590@osu.edu, E-mail: philip.rosenfield@cfa.harvard.edu, E-mail: skillman@astro.umn.edu, E-mail: antonela@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE2017
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[en] We map the star formation history across M31 by fitting stellar evolution models to color–magnitude diagrams of each 83″ × 83″ (0.3 × 1.4 kpc, deprojected) region of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey outside of the innermost portion. We find that most of the star formation occurred prior to ∼8 Gyr ago, followed by a relatively quiescent period until ∼4 Gyr ago, a subsequent star formation episode about 2 Gyr ago, and a return to relative quiescence. There appears to be little, if any, structure visible for populations with ages older than 2 Gyr, suggesting significant mixing since that epoch. Finally, assuming a Kroupa initial mass function from 0.1 to 100 M ⊙, we find that the total amount of star formation over the past 14 Gyr in the area over which we have fit models is 5 × 1010 M ⊙. Fitting the radial distribution of this star formation and assuming azimuthal symmetry, (1.5 ± 0.2) × 1011 M ⊙ of stars has formed in the M31 disk as a whole, (9 ± 2) × 1010 M ⊙ of which has likely survived to the present after accounting for evolutionary effects. This mass is about one-fifth of the total dynamical mass of M31.
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa862a; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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