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We study the evolved stellar population of the galaxy Sextans A. This galaxy is one of the lowest metallicity dwarfs in which variable asymptotic giant branch stars have been detected, suggesting that little metal enrichment took place…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 F. Dell'Agli , M. Di Criscienzo , D. A. García-Hernández , P. Ventura , M. Limongi , E. Marini , O. C. Jones

We present a measurement of the star formation history of Sextans A, based on WFPC2 photometry that is 50% complete to V=27.5 (M_V ~+ 1.9) and I=27.0. The star formation history and chemical enrichment history have been measured through…

With both nebular- and stellar-derived abundances of $\lesssim$ 1/10 Zsun and low foreground extinction, Sextans A is a prime candidate to replace the Small Magellanic Cloud as reservoir of metal-poor massive stars and reference to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-10 Miriam Garcia , Artemio Herrero , Francisco Najarro , Inés Camacho , Marta Lorenzo , .

We have measured stellar photometry from deep Cycle 7 Hubble Space Telescope/WFPC2 imaging of the dwarf irregular galaxy Sextans A. The imaging was taken in three filters: F555W ($V$; 8 orbits), F814W ($I$; 16 orbits), and F656N (H$\alpha$;…

We present the star formation history and chemical evolution of the Sextans dSph dwarf galaxy as a function of galactocentric distance. We derive these from the $VI$ photometry of stars in the $42' \times 28'$ field using the SMART model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Myung Gyoon Lee , In-Soo Yuk , Hong Soo Park , Jason Harris , Dennis Zaritsky

We study the resolved stellar populations of dwarf galaxies in the nearby Centaurus A/M83 group of galaxies. Our goal is to characterize their evolutionary history and to investigate eventual similarities or differences with the dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Crnojević , E. K. Grebel , A. A. Cole

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

[Abridged] We map the stellar age distribution ($\lesssim 1$ Gyr) across a 6kpc$\,\times\,$6kpc area of the Galactic disc to constrain our Galaxy's recent star-formation history. Our modelling draws on the sample of Zari et al. (2021) that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 E. Zari , N. Frankel , H. -W. Rix

Feedback from massive stars shapes the ISM and affects the evolution of galaxies, but its mechanisms acting at the small scales ($\sim 10$ pc) are still not well constrained observationally, especially in the low-metallicity environments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-25 Ivan S. Gerasimov , Oleg V. Egorov , Tatiana A. Lozinskaya , Alexei V. Moiseev , Dmitry V. Oparin

We map the spatial distribution of recent star formation over a few x 100 Myr timescales in fifteen starburst dwarf galaxies using the location of young blue helium burning stars identified from optically resolved stellar populations in…

We present a detailed study of the stellar and HI structure of the dwarf irregular galaxies SextansA and SextansB, members of the NGC3109 association. We use newly obtained deep (r~26.5) and wide field g,r photometry to extend the Surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-02 M. Bellazzini , G. Beccari , F. Fraternali , T. A. Oosterloo , A. Sollima , V. Testa , S. Galleti , S. Perina , M. Faccini , F. Cusano

We present the star formation history (SFH) of the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy based on deep archive $B$,$I$ photometry taken with Suprime-Cam at Subaru telescope focusing our analysis on the inner region of the galaxy, fully located…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-26 M. Bettinelli , S. L. Hidalgo , S. Cassisi , A. Aparicio , G. Piotto

We address the question of the occurrence of star formation bursts in the solar neighbourhood by using the metallicity distribution of the G dwarfs. We present a method to recover the star formation history using simultaneously the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Walter J. Maciel

IC 1613 is a Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy at a distance of 750 kpc. In this work, we present an analysis of the star formation history (SFH) of a field of $\sim200$ square arcmin in the central part of the galaxy. To this aim, we use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Seyed Azim Hashemi , Atefeh Javadi , Jacco Th. van Loon

We analyse the properties of three unusual dwarf galaxies in the Centaurus A group discovered with the HIPASS survey. From their optical morphology they appear to be low surface brightness dwarf spheroidals, yet they are gas-rich…

We present resolved-star VI photometry of the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy IC1613 reaching I~23.5, obtained with the wide-field camera at the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope. A fit to the stellar density distribution shows an exponential…

Aims. We study the connection between spatially resolved star formation and young star clusters across the disc of M51. Methods. We combine star cluster data based on B, V, and I-band Hubble Space Telescope ACS imaging, together with new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Scheepmaker , H. J. G. L. M. Lamers , P. Anders , S. S. Larsen

Strong bursts of star formation in galaxies may be triggered either by internal or external mechanisms. We study the distribution and kinematics of the HI gas in the outer regions of 18 nearby starburst dwarf galaxies, that have accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Federico Lelli , Marc Verheijen , Filippo Fraternali

We report a possible discovery of a relic star cluster in the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Using the \textit{hk} index ($\equiv$($Ca-b$)$-$($b-y$)) as a photometric metallicity indicator, we discriminate the metal-poor and metal-rich…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-10 Hak-Sub Kim , Sang-Il Han , Seok-Joo Joo , Hyunjin Jeong , Suk-Jin Yoon

40 galaxies are currently known as, or suspected to be Local Group members within a radius of 1.8 Mpc. 37 of these galaxies are dwarf galaxies with M_B > -18.5 mag. I present a compilation of the star formation histories of dwarf…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eva K. Grebel
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