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The yellow supergiant content of nearby galaxies can provide a critical test of stellar evolution theory, bridging the gap between the hot, massive stars and the cool red supergiants. But, this region of the color-magnitude diagram is dominated by foreground contamination, requiring membership to somehow be determined. Fortunately, the large negative systemic velocity of M31, coupled to its high rotation rate, provides the means for separating the contaminating foreground dwarfs from the bona fide yellow supergiants within M31. We obtained radial velocities of ∼2900 individual targets within the correct color-magnitude range corresponding to masses of 12M ⊙ and higher. A comparison of these velocities to those expected from M31’s rotation curve reveals 54 rank 1 (near certain) and 66 rank 2 (probable) yellow supergiant members, indicating a foreground contamination ≥ 96%. We expect some modest contamination from Milky Way halo 1 Observations reported here were obtained at the MMT Observatory, a joint facility of the University of
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