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Hydra II:在麦哲伦星系历史巡天中发现的一个暗淡而紧凑的Milky Way矮星系

Hydra II: a faint and compact Milky Way dwarf galaxy found in the Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History

Nicolas F. Martin, David L. Nidever, Gurtina Besla, Knut Olsen, Alistair R. Walker, A. Katherina Vivas, Robert A. Gruendl, Catherine C. Kaleida, Ricardo R. Muño… 展开作者

Nicolas F. Martin, David L. Nidever, Gurtina Besla, Knut Olsen, Alistair R. Walker, A. Katherina Vivas, Robert A. Gruendl, Catherine C. Kaleida, Ricardo R. Muñoz, Robert D. Blum, Abhijit Saha, Blair C. Conn, Eric F. Bell, You-Hua Chu, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Thomas J. L. de Boer, Carme Gallart, Shoko Jin, Andrea Kunder, Steven R. Majewski, David Martinez-Delgado, Antonela Monachesi, Matteo Monelli, Lara Monteagudo, Noelia E. D. Noël, Edward W. Olszewski, Guy S. Stringfellow, Roeland P. van der Marel, Denis Zaritsky

摘要:

我们目前发现的一个新的矮星系,长蛇座II,偶然发现的数据从正在进行的调查的麦哲伦恒星史(SMASH)进行的暗能量相机的布兰科4米望远镜。这颗新卫星结构紧凑(r_h = 68 +/- 11 pc),亮度较低(M_V = -4.8 +/- 0.3),但仍属于矮星系的范畴。HydraII在色星等图中的恒星分布被贫金属([Fe/H] = -2.2)和古老(13 Gyr)的等时线很好地描述,并显示出一个明显的蓝色水平分支,一些可能的红色团块星,以及暗示蓝色离散星的暗淡恒星。在日心距离134 +/- 10千秒差距处,九头蛇II位于星系晕的一个区域,模型认为该区域可能含有来自麦哲伦流的主要臂的物质。与N体模拟的比较表明,新的矮星系可能是或可能已经是麦哲伦云的卫星。

英文摘要:

We present the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, Hydra II, found serendipitously within the data from the ongoing Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) conducted with the Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco 4m Telescope. The new satellite is compact (r_h = 68 +/- 11 pc) and faint (M_V = -4.8 +/- 0.3), but well within the realm of dwarf galaxies. The stellar distribution of HydraII in the color-magnitude diagram is well-described by a metal-poor ([Fe/H] = -2.2) and old (13 Gyr) isochrone and shows a distinct blue horizontal branch, some possible red clump stars, and faint stars that are suggestive of blue stragglers. At a heliocentric distance of 134 +/- 10 kpc, Hydra II is located in a region of the Galactic halo that models have suggested may host material from the leading arm of the Magellanic Stream. A comparison with N-body simulations hints that the new dwarf galaxy could be or could have been a satellite of the Magellanic Clouds.

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