An intriguing coincidence between the majority of vast polar structure dwarfs and a recent major merger at the M31 position

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Fig. 9.

Stars (black dots in the left panel) and gas (green dots in the right panel) from the M31 merger model 336 with 24 million particles, that shows the formation of more than two tidal tails. The M31 is shown with a blue dot and the MW (red dot) neighbourhood is shown as a red circle of 100 kpc radius.

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