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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 new chemical evolution model for dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) in the Local Universe. Our main aim is to explain both their observed star formation histories and metallicity distribution functions simultaneously. Applying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Hidetomo Homma , Takashi Murayama , Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Yoshiaki Taniguchi

We have obtained spectra of three QSO/AGNs with the GHRS aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to search for absorption from low column density gas in the halo of the dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy Leo I. The probe sightlines pass 2.1, 3.7, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David V. Bowen , Eline Tolstoy , Andrea Ferrara , J. Chris Blades , Elias Brinks

We combine new spectroscopic observations of the ultra faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) Bo\"otes I (Boo I) from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey ($S^{5}$) with $\sim$15 years of archival spectroscopic data to create the largest…

We present a detailed study of the color magnitude diagram (CMD) of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo I, based on archival Hubble Space Telescope data. Our photometric analysis, confirming previous results on the brighter portion of the CMD,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Caputo , S. Cassisi , M. Castellani , G. Marconi , P. Santolamazza

We have used UVES on VLT-UT2 to take spectra of 15 individual red giant stars in the centers of four nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Sculptor, Fornax, Carina and Leo I. We measure the abundance variations of numerous elements in these low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 Eline Tolstoy , K. A. Venn , M. Shetrone , F. Primas , V. Hill , A. Kaufer , T. Szeifert

Aims. Recently, both the presence of multiple stellar chemo-kinematic components and rotation in the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy have been put into question. Therefore, we re-examine the chemo-kinematic properties of this galaxy making…

We present stellar metallicities in Leo I, Leo II, IC 1613, and Phoenix dwarf galaxies derived from medium (F390M) and broad (F555W, F814W) band photometry using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Teresa L. Ross , Jon A. Holtzman , Abhijit Saha , Barbara J. Anthony-Twarog

We present deep HST F555W (V) and F814W (I) observations of a central field in the Local Group dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy Leo I. The resulting color-magnitude diagram (CMD) reaches I \simeq 26 and reveals the oldest ~10-15 Gyr old…

We present a large sample of fully self-consistent hydrodynamical Nbody/Tree-SPH simulations of isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). It has enabled us to identify the key physical parameters and mechanisms at the origin of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Y. Revaz , P. Jablonka , T. Sawala , V. Hill , B. Letarte , M. Irwin , G. Battaglia , A. Helmi , M. D. Shetrone , E. Tolstoy , K. A. Venn

We present the projected velocity dispersion profile for the remote (d=233kpc) Galactic dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy Leo II, based on 171 discrete stellar radial velocities that were obtained from medium-resolution spectroscopy using the…

We present the results of fitting a flexible stellar stream density model to a collection of thirteen streams around the Milky Way, using photometric data from DES, DECaLS, and Pan-STARRS. We construct density maps for each stream and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Jeffrey M. Patrick , Sergey E. Koposov , Matthew G. Walker

A recent study found dynamical evidence of a supermassive black hole of $\sim 3 \times 10^{6} \, \rm M_\odot$ at the center of Leo I, the most distant dwarf spheroidal galaxy of the Milky Way. This black hole, comparable in mass to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Fabio Pacucci , Yueying Ni , Abraham Loeb

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

Combining stellar atmospheric parameters, such as effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity, with barycentric radial velocity data provides insight into the chemo-dynamics of the Milky Way and our local Galactic environment.…

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

Here, we present a set of time-dependent 3D RMHD simulations of a M-dwarf star representative of AD Leo, which extend from the upper convection zone into the chromosphere. The 3D model atmospheres are characterized by a very dynamic and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Sven Wedemeyer , Hans-Günter Ludwig

We derive the star formation histories of eight dwarf spheroidal (dSph) Milky Way satellite galaxies from their alpha element abundance patterns. Nearly 3000 stars from our previously published catalog (Paper II) comprise our data set. The…

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

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…