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We have obtained deep photometry in two 1x1 degree fields covering the close pair of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph) Leo IV and Leo V and part of the area in between. We find that both systems are significantly larger than indicated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jelte T. A. de Jong , Nicolas F. Martin , Hans-Walter Rix , Kester W. Smith , Shoko Jin , Andrea V. Maccio'

We report the discovery of a new Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation of Leo identified in data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Leo V lies at a distance of about 180 kpc, and is separated by about 3 degrees from another…

We report the discovery of two ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, Leo M and Leo K, that lie outside the halo of the Milky Way. Using Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the resolved stars, we create color-magnitude diagrams reaching the old main…

We present MMT/Megacam imaging of the Leo~IV dwarf galaxy in order to investigate its structure and star formation history, and to search for signs of association with the recently discovered Leo~V satellite. Based on parameterized fits, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 D. J. Sand , A. Seth , E. W. Olszewski , B. Willman , D. Zaritsky , N. Kallivayalil

We present a spectroscopic study of Leo V, a recently discovered satellite of the Milky Way (MW). From stellar spectra obtained with the MMT/Hectochelle spectrograph we identify seven likely members of Leo V. Five cluster near the Leo V…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew G. Walker , Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans , Michael J. Irwin , Mario Mateo , Edward W. Olszewski , Gerard Gilmore

We combine our Hubble Space Telescope measurement of the proper motion of the Leo I dwarf spheroidal galaxy (presented in a companion paper) with the highest resolution numerical simulations of Galaxy-size dark matter halos in existence to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-17 Michael Boylan-Kolchin , James S. Bullock , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Gurtina Besla , Roeland P. van der Marel

In this Letter, we announce the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, Leo T, in the Local Group. It was found as a stellar overdensity in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (SDSS DR5). The color-magnitude diagram of Leo T shows two…

We present deep wide-field photometry of three recently discovered faint Milky Way satellites: Leo V, Pisces II, and Canes Venatici II. Our main goals are to study the structure and star formation history of these dwarfs; we also search for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. J. Sand , J. Strader , B. Willman , D. Zaritsky , B. McLeod , N. Caldwell , A. Seth , E. Olszewski

We announce the discovery of the Crater 2 dwarf galaxy, identified in imaging data of the VST ATLAS survey. Given its half-light radius of ~1100 pc, Crater 2 is the fourth largest dwarf in the Milky Way, surpassed only by the LMC, SMC and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-02 G. Torrealba , S. E. Koposov , V. Belokurov , M. Irwin

Current models of galaxy formation predict that galaxy pairs of comparable magnitudes should become increasingly rare with decreasing luminosity. This seems at odds with the relatively high frequency of pairings among dwarf galaxies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Azadeh Fattahi , Julio F. Navarro , Else Starkenburg , Christopher R. Barber , Alan W. McConnachie

We present a revised analysis of a speculated stellar bridge between the Milky Way dwarf galaxies Leo IV and Leo V. Using data acquired with Subaru/Suprime-Cam over a 1deg x 4deg field encompassing the two satellites and the region in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-27 Shoko Jin , Nicolas Martin , Jelte de Jong , Blair Conn , Hans-Walter Rix , Mike Irwin

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of an ultra-faint Milky Way (MW) satellite in the constellation of Leo. This system was discovered as a spatial overdensity of resolved stars observed with Dark Energy Camera (DECam)…

The impact of the dynamical state of gas-rich satellite galaxies at the early moments of their infall into their host systems and the relation to their quenching process are not completely understood at the low-mass regime. Two such nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-15 Matias Blaña , Andreas Burkert , Michael Fellhauer , Diego Calderón , Manuel Behrendt , Marc Schartmann

It is widely established that a lower bound on the dark matter particle mass, $m$, can be obtained by demanding that the de Broglie wavelength in a given galaxy must be smaller than the virial radius of the galaxy, leading to $m\gtrsim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-28 Tim Zimmermann , James Alvey , David J. E. Marsh , Malcolm Fairbairn , Justin I. Read

Over the past five years, searches in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data have more than doubled the number of known dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, and have revealed a population of ultra-faint galaxies with luminosities smaller than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-23 James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Andrew Fruchter , Marla Geha , Joshua D. Simon , Louis E. Strigari , Beth Willman

Suggestions have appeared in the literature that the following five pairs of Milky Way and Andromeda satellite galaxies are gravitationally bound: Draco and Ursa Minor, Leo IV and V, Andromeda I and III, NGC 147 and 185, and the Magellanic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-05 Jarah Evslin

We present Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy of stars in 8 of the newly discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way. We measure the velocity dispersions of Canes Venatici I and II, Ursa Major I and II, Coma Berenices, Hercules, Leo IV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joshua D. Simon , Marla Geha

High-accuracy absolute proper motions, radial velocities, and distances have now been measured for a number of dwarf-galaxy companions of the Milky Way, making it possible to study their 3D dynamics. Galactic orbits for 11 such galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-14 A. T. Bajkova , V. V. Bobylev

We present a chemodynamical analysis of the Leo~V dwarf galaxy, based on Keck II DEIMOS spectra of 8 member stars. We find a systemic velocity for the system of $\langle v_r\rangle = 170.9^{+ 2.1}_{-1.9}$kms$^{-1}$, and barely resolve a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Michelle L. M. Collins , Erik J. Tollerud , David J. Sand , Ana Bonaca , Beth Willman , Jay Strader

The ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Leo V has shown both photometric overdensities and kinematic members at large radii, along with a tentative kinematic gradient, suggesting that it may have undergone a close encounter with the Milky Way. We…

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