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We have studied young stellar populations and star clusters in the dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A using multicolor ($B$, $V$, $R$, $I$, $H\alpha$) photometry data obtained with the Subaru Suprime-Cam and two-color photometry results measured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 R. Stonkutė , M. Čeponis , A. Leščinskaitė , V. Vansevičius

We have surveyed a complete extent of Leo A - an apparently isolated gas-rich low-mass dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group. The $B$, $V$, and $I$ passband CCD images (typical seeing $\sim$0.8") were obtained with Subaru Telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-10 R. Stonkutė , N. Arimoto , T. Hasegawa , D. Narbutis , N. Tamura , V. Vansevičius

Leo A is an isolated gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy of low stellar mass and metallicity residing at the outskirts of the Local Group. Ages of the stellar populations in Leo A range from $\sim$10 Myr to $\sim$10 Gyr. So far, only one star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-16 Rima Stonkute , Rokas Naujalis , Marius Ceponis , Alina Lescinskaite , Vladas Vansevicius

We have studied Leo A - the isolated and extremely gas rich dwarf irregular galaxy of very low stellar mass and metallicity. Ages of the stellar populations in Leo A are ranging from ~10 Myr to ~10 Gyr. Here we report the discovery of an…

We present deep Hubble Space Telescope single-star photometry of Leo A in B, V, and I. Our new field of view is offset from the centrally located field observed by Tolstoy et al. (1998) in order to expose the halo population of this galaxy.…

A near-infrared imaging study of the evolved stellar populations in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo I is presented. Based on JHK observations obtained with the WFCAM wide-field array at the UKIRT telescope, we build a near-infrared…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. V. Held , M. Gullieuszik , L. Rizzi , L. Girardi , P. Marigo , I. Saviane

We characterize massive stars (M>8 M_sun) in the nearby (D~0.8 Mpc) extremely metal-poor (Z~5% Z_sun) galaxy Leo A using Hubble Space Telescope ultra-violet (UV), optical, and near-infrared (NIR) imaging along with Keck/LRIS and…

With the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma we made IJKs observations of an area of about 40'x30' of the Local Group galaxy Draco. This allows us to describe Draco's late-type stellar population across the whole galaxy at a photometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. -R. L. Cioni , H. J. Habing

We present JHK$_{s}$ observations of the metal-poor ([Fe/H] $<$ -1.40) Dwarf-irregular galaxies, Leo A and Sextans A obtained with the WIYN High-Resolution Infrared Camera at Kitt Peak. Their near-IR stellar populations are characterized by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Olivia C. Jones , Matthew T. Maclay , Martha L. Boyer , Margaret Meixner , Iain McDonald , Helen Meskhidze

We carried out a wide-field V, I imaging survey of the Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo II using the Subaru Prime Focus Camera on the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope. The survey covered an area of 26.67 x 26.67 arcmin^2, far beyond the tidal…

The first results of a study of the the dwarf spheroidal galaxy, Leo I, using the new Japanese-South African Infrared Survey Facility (IRSF) are presented. J,H,K_{s} observations show that most, if not all, of at least the top one magnitude…

The unprecedented detail of the WFPC2 colour-magnitude diagrams of the resolved stellar population of Leo A presented here allows us to determine a new distance and an accurate star formation history for this extremely metal-poor Local…

We present a new method to derive 2D star formation histories in dwarf irregular galaxies. Based on multicolor stellar photometry data we have found that in the Leo A galaxy during the last $\sim$400 Myr star formation was propagating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Marius Čeponis , Rima Stonkutė , Vladas Vansevičius

We present a study of the evolved stellar populations in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy LeoII, based on JHKs observations obtained with the near-infrared array WFCAM at the UKIRT telescope. Combining the new data with optical data, we derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Gullieuszik , E. V. Held , L. Rizzi , L. Girardi , P. Marigo , Y. Momany

We combine precision radial velocity data from four different published works of the stars in the Leo II dwarf spheroidal galaxy. This yields a dataset that spans 19 years, has 14 different epochs of observation, and contains 372 unique red…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Meghin Spencer , Mario Mateo , Matthew Walker , Edward Olszewski , Alan McConnachie , Evan Kirby , Andreas Koch

A search for a correlation between the luminosities of the brightest stars and luminosities of their host galaxies was carried out on archived Hubble Space Telescope (HST) F606W or F555W (V) and F814W (I) images of about 150 nearby…

We measure the first stellar velocity dispersion of the Leo A dwarf galaxy, \sigma = 9.3 +- 1.3 km/s. We derive the velocity dispersion from the radial velocities of ten young B supergiants and two HII regions in the central region of Leo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Warren R. Brown , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon , Michael J. Kurtz

Dwarf galaxies in the local group provide a unique astrophysical laboratory. Despite their proximity some of these systems still lack a reliable distance determination as well as studies of their stellar content and star formation history.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Snigula , Claus Goessl , Ulrich Hopp , Heinz Barwig

We investigate the star formation history and metallicity of the Local Group irregular dwarf galaxy WLM using wide-field JHK near-infrared imaging, spanning a region of approximately 1 sq. degree, obtained with WFCAM on UKIRT. JHK…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-12 Benjamin Tatton , Maria-Rosa Cioni , Mike Irwin

We present a study aimed at deriving constraints on star formation at intermediate ages from the evolved stellar populations in the dwarf irregular galaxy UKS2323-326. These observations were also intended to demonstrate the scientific…

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