M31 AND M33 SUPERGIANT CANDIDATES

Radial velocities of nearly 5000 photometrically selected M31/M33 supergiant candidates have been properly derived from the qualified spectra released in LAMOST DR10. By comparing their radial velocities with those predicted from the rotation curves of M31, as well as utilizing Gaia astrometric measurements to exclude foreground contaminations, 199 supergiant members in M31, including 168 ‘Rank1’ and 31 ‘Rank2’, have been successfully identified.

This sample contains 62 blue supergiants (BSGs, all ‘Rank1’), 134 yellow supergiants (YSGs, 103 ‘Rank1’ and 31 ‘Rank2’) and 3 red supergiants (RSGs, all ‘Rank1’). For M33, we identify 84 supergiant members (56 ‘Rank1’ and 28 ‘Rank2’), which includes 28 BSGs (all ‘Rank1’), 53 YSGs (25 ‘Rank1’ and 28 ‘Rank2’) and 3 RSGs (all ‘Rank1’).