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牧夫座III星系中的红团星

Red Clump stars in the Bootes III stellar system

M. Correnti, M. Bellazzini, F. R. Ferraro

摘要:

我们报告的检测人口的红团(RC)恒星可能与最近发现的恒星系统牧夫座III。RC被确定为从SDSS数据库中提取的色选星的光度函数(LF)中的3 sigma峰。在Bootes III距离处的典型RC的预期光度下,在g、r、i和z LF中一致地检测到峰值。此外,LF峰附近的恒星表面密度的最大值几乎与报告的系统中心重合。假设探测到的特征是真正的牧夫座III的RC,我们发现该系统具有典型的古老和贫金属矮椭球体的HB形态,它的积分星等M_V=-5.8 pm 0. 5,椭圆率φ约为0.5,是最近发现的新一类非常微弱的矮星系的典型特征。

英文摘要:

We report on the detection of a population of Red Clump (RC) stars probably associated with the recently discovered stellar system Bootes III. The RC is identified as a 3 sigma peak in the Luminosity Function (LF) of colour-selected stars extracted from the SDSS database. The peak is consistently detected in the g,r,i and z LFs at the expected luminosity of a typical RC at the distance of Bootes III. Moreover the stars around the LF peak show a maximum of surface density nearly coincident with the reported center of the system. Assuming that the detected feature is the genuine RC of Bootes III, we find that the system has the HB morphology typical of old and metal-poor dwarf spheroidals, it has an integrated magnitude M_V=-5.8 pm 0.5 and an ellipticity epsilon about 0.5, quite typical of the recently identified new class of very faint dwarf galaxies.

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