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Wide Field Observations of the Ursa Minor dSph galaxy

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Ursa Minor (UMi) is one of the closest satellites of the Milky Way (d=69 kpc). It is possibly a disrupted dSph interacting with the external Galactic halo. This makes its study quite necessary in the forementioned context. In this paper we present preliminary results of a wide field photometry survey of UMi and discuss the presence of an intermediate-age population and tidal tails in it.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9904385,
  title  = {Wide Field Observations of the Ursa Minor dSph galaxy},
  author = {D. Martinez-Delgado and A. Aparicio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9904385},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the IAU Symp.192 Proceedings