Recent Results from SPLASH: Chemical Abundances and Kinematics of
  Andromeda's Stellar Halo
  Large scale surveys of Andromeda's resolved stellar populations have
revolutionized our view of this galaxy over the past decade. The combination of
large-scale, contiguous photometric surveys and pointed spectroscopic surveys
has been particularly powerful for discovering substructure and disentangling
the structural components of Andromeda. The SPLASH (Spectroscopic and
Photometric Landscape of Andromeda's Stellar Halo) survey consists of broad-
and narrow-band imaging and spectroscopy of red giant branch stars in lines of
sight ranging in distance from 2 kpc to more than 200 kpc from Andromeda's
center. The SPLASH data reveal a power-law surface brightness profile extending
to at least two-thirds of Andromeda's virial radius (Gilbert et al. 2012), a
metallicity gradient extending to at least 100 kpc from Andromeda's center
(Gilbert et al. 2014), and evidence of a significant population of heated disk
stars in Andromeda's inner halo (Dorman et al. 2013). We are also using the
velocity distribution of halo stars to measure the tangential motion of
Andromeda (Beaton et al., in prep).
