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在DES第六年数据中搜寻银河系外暗弱的可分辨星系:NGC 55的一颗新的暗弱、弥散矮卫星星系

A search for faint resolved galaxies beyond the Milky Way in DES Year 6: A new faint, diffuse dwarf satellite of NGC 55

M. McNanna, K. Bechtol, S. Mau, E. O. Nadler, J. Medoff, A. Drlica-Wagner, W. Cerny, D. Crnojevic, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, A. K. Vivas, A. B. Pace, J. L. Carlin, M. L.… 展开作者

M. McNanna, K. Bechtol, S. Mau, E. O. Nadler, J. Medoff, A. Drlica-Wagner, W. Cerny, D. Crnojevic, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, A. K. Vivas, A. B. Pace, J. L. Carlin, M. L. M. Collins, P. S. Ferguson, D. Martinez-Delgado, C. E. Martinez-Vazquez, N. E. D. Noel, A. H. Riley, D. J. Sand, A. Smercina, E. Tollerud, R. H. Wechsler, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, O. Alves, D. Bacon, C. R. Bom, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, J. A. Carballo-Bello, A. Carnero Rosell, J. Carretero, L. N. da Costa, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, I. Ferrero, J. Frieman, G. Giannini, D. Gruen, G. Gutierrez, R. A. Gruendl, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, J. L. Marshall, J. Mena-Fernandez, R. Miquel, M. E. S. Pereira, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagon, J. D. Sakowska, E. Sanchez, D. Sanchez Cid, B. Santiago, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Smith, G. S. Stringfellow, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, G. Tarle, N. Weaverdyck, P. Wiseman

AI总结:

利用DES六年数据在银河系外搜寻暗弱矮星系,发现了一颗距离2.2 Mpc、可能是NGC 55卫星的极暗弱弥散矮星系,其绝对星等为-8.0 mag,表面亮度低至32.3 mag arcsec^{-2},是该光度下已知最大最弥散的星系。

摘要:

我们报告了利用暗能量巡天(DES)全部六年数据,对日心距离0.3至2 Mpc范围内暗弱矮星系进行的系统性大天区搜寻结果。与以往基于DES数据的搜寻不同,本次搜寻专门针对位于银河系维里半径之外的暗弱星系场族。我们利用一组合成星系推导了对本星系群中暗弱、可分辨矮星系的探测效率,并预期对于距离D = (0.3, 2.0) Mpc处的星系,我们的搜寻可分别完备至M_V ~ (-7, -10) mag。我们在DES覆盖区内未发现新的场矮星系,但报告发现了一个高显著性候选矮星系,距离为2.2+0.05/-0.12 Mpc,它可能是本星系群星系NGC 55的一颗卫星星系,二者相距47角分(物理距离最小可达30 kpc)。我们估计该矮星系的绝对V波段星等为-8.0+0.5/-0.3 mag,方位角平均的物理半光半径为2.2+0.5/-0.4 kpc,使其成为迄今发现的表面亮度最低的星系之一,μ = 32.3 mag arcsec^{-2}。这是在该光度下已知的最大、最弥散的星系,表明它可能与其宿主星系发生过潮汐相互作用。

英文摘要:

We report results from a systematic wide-area search for faint dwarf galaxies at heliocentric distances from 0.3 to 2 Mpc using the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Unlike previous searches over the DES data, this search specifically targeted a field population of faint galaxies located beyond the Milky Way virial radius. We derive our detection efficiency for faint, resolved dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume with a set of synthetic galaxies and expect our search to be complete to $M_V$ ~ $(-7, -10)$ mag for galaxies at $D = (0.3, 2.0)$ Mpc respectively. We find no new field dwarfs in the DES footprint, but we report the discovery of one high-significance candidate dwarf galaxy at a distance of $2.2\substack{+0.05\\-0.12}$ Mpc, a potential satellite of the Local Volume galaxy NGC 55, separated by $47$ arcmin (physical separation as small as 30 kpc). We estimate this dwarf galaxy to have an absolute V-band magnitude of $-8.0\substack{+0.5\\-0.3}$ mag and an azimuthally averaged physical half-light radius of $2.2\substack{+0.5\\-0.4}$ kpc, making this one of the lowest surface brightness galaxies ever found with $μ= 32.3$ mag ${\rm arcsec}^{-2}$. This is the largest, most diffuse galaxy known at this luminosity, suggesting possible tidal interactions with its host.

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