N-body simulation of a major merger shows M31's extended rotating stellar disc as a stretched and warped remnant of the progenitor disc extending beyond 40 kpc.
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The Merger-Driven Origin of the Vast Extended Stellar Disc Around the Andromeda Galaxy
N-body simulation of a major merger shows M31's extended rotating stellar disc as a stretched and warped remnant of the progenitor disc extending beyond 40 kpc.