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C star population in outer disk of M31

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We employ the CFHT Megacam camera to survey ~1{deg}^2^ of the southern outer disc of M31, a region which includes the area where Battinelli et al. (2003, Cat. <J/AJ/125/1298>) have identified nearly one thousand C stars.

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In the outer M31 region not previously surveyed, we identify 361 new C star candidates, having similar photometric properties to the known ones, and confirm the slight decrease in the luminosity of C stars with galactocentric distances.

We show that the Sloan g', r', i' filters are a viable approach, comparable to (CN-TiO), to identify C stars. We find that the (g'-r') colours of cool C stars can be so red that prohibitively long g' exposures are needed to acquire faint extragalactic C stars. This makes the Sloan filters a less promising approach to extend a C star survey to several Mpc.

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Our uniform large field survey detects the edge of M31 disk at ~35kpc. The intermediate-age population, represented by C stars, extends further to ~40kpc.

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