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We present metallicities and ages for 52 red giants in the remote Galactic dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy Leo II. These stars cover the entire surface area of Leo II and are radial velocity members. We obtained medium-resolution multi-fiber…

We present elemental abundances for multiple HII regions in Leo A and GR 8 obtained from long slit optical spectroscopy of these two nearby low luminosity dwarf irregular galaxies. As expected from their luminosities, and in agreement with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. van Zee , E. D. Skillman , M. P. Haynes

The location of two nearby galaxy groups within ~20 Mpc in the Leo region allows for a detailed study of low-mass galaxies. A catalog of HI line detections in Leo (9h36m < RA <11h36m, +8deg < dec < +16deg) has been made from the blind HI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sabrina Stierwalt

Located within the central region of the Galaxy, the Arches cluster appears to be one of the youngest, densest and most massive stellar aggregates within the Milky Way. As such it has the potential to be a uniquely instructive laboratory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 J. S. Clark , M. E. Lohr , F. Najarro , H. Dong , F. Martins

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…

We present the first V, B-V color-magnitude diagram of the Leo IV dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a faint Milky Way satellite recently discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We have obtained B,V time-series photometry reaching about half a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 M. I. Moretti , M. Dall'Ora , V. Ripepi , G. Clementini , L. Di Fabrizio , H. Smith , N. De Lee , C. Kuehn , M. Catelan , M. Marconi , I. Musella , T. Beers , K. Kinemuchi

We have obtained V and I-band photometry for about 17500 stars in the field of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC3109, located in the outskirts of the Local Group. The photometry allows us to study the stellar populations present inside and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dante Minniti , Albert Zijlstra , M. Victoria Alonso

We present results from ground-based optical imaging of a low-mass dwarf galaxy discovered by the ALFALFA 21-cm HI survey. Broadband (BVR) data obtained with the WIYN 3.5-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) are used to…

We investigate the relationship between the spatial distributions of stellar populations and of neutral and ionized gas in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy Sextans A. This galaxy is currently experiencing a burst of localized star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Daniel Puche , Tony Wong

We have obtained V and I images of the lone globular cluster that belongs to the dwarf Local Group irregular galaxy known as WLM. The color-magnitude diagram of the cluster shows that it is a normal old globular cluster with a well-defined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul W. Hodge , Andrew E. Dolphin , Toby R. Smith , Mario Mateo

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 carry out sensitive searches for the CO J=1-0 and J=2-1 lines in the giant extragalactic HI ring in Leo to investigate the star formation process within environments where gas metallicities are close to solar but physical conditions are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Edvige Corbelli , David Thilker , Filippo Mannucci , Giovanni Cresci

We confirm that the object DDO216-A1 is a substantial globular cluster at the center of Local Group galaxy DDO216 (the Pegasus dwarf irregular), using Hubble Space Telescope ACS imaging. By fitting isochrones, we find the cluster…

We present Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and Westerbork ynthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) observations of the recently discovered Local Group dwarf galaxy, Leo T. The peak HI column density is measured to be 7x10^20 cm^-2, and the…

We examine the star clusters in the irregular galaxy NGC 4449. We use a near-infrared spectrum and broad-band images taken with the HST to place a limit of 8--15 Myrs on the age of the bright central ojbect in NGC 4449. Its luminosity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrea E. Gelatt , Deidre A. Hunter , J. S. Gallagher

Twenty six Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) variables are identified in the Local Group galaxy Leo I. These include 7 Mira and 5 semi-regular variables for which periods, amplitudes and mean magnitudes are determined. The large range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 John W. Menzies , Patricia A. Whitelock , Michael W. Feast , Noriyuki Matsunaga

We have performed a deep multi-band photometric analysis of the star cluster population of Haro 11. This starburst galaxy (log L_FUV = 10.3 L_sun) is considered a nearby analogue of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at high redshift. The study of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 Angela Adamo , Göran Östlin , Erik Zackrisson , Matthew Hayes

We present results from ACS and WFPC observations in the low luminosity galaxy NGC 45. We identified 28 young star cluster candidates. While the exact values of age, mass, and extinction depend somewhat on the choice of SSP models, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marcelo D. Mora , Soeren S. Larsen , Markus Kissler-Patig

In the region of the sky limited by the coordinates RA$=7.0^h...12.0^h$, Dec$=0^\circ...+20^\circ$ and extending from the Virgo Cluster to the South Pole of the Local Supercluster, we consider the data on the galaxies with radial velocities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Igor D. Karachentsev , Olga G. Nasonova , Valentina E. Karachentseva