Results 91 to 100 of about 35,030 (307)

The Mitchell Spectrograph: Studying Nearby Galaxies with the VIRUS Prototype

Advances in Astronomy, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
The Mitchell Spectrograph (a.k.a. VIRUS‐P) on the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith telescope at McDonald Observatory is currently the largest field of view (FOV) integral field unit (IFU) spectrograph in the world (1.7′ × 1.7′). It was designed as a prototype for the highly replicable VIRUS spectrograph which consists of a mosaic of IFUs spread over a 16 ...
Guillermo A. Blanc, Jorge Iglesias Páramo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Evolution of a Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy with Smoothed-particle Hydrodynamics Simulations. I. Stellar Feedback

The Astrophysical Journal
A fundamental question regarding the evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies is the identification of the key physical mechanisms responsible for gas depletion.
Roberto Hazenfratz, Paramita Barai, Gustavo A. Lanfranchi, Anderson Caproni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The mass of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and the missing satellite problem

, 2005
We present the results from a suite of N-body simulations of the tidal stripping of two-component dwarf galaxies comprising some stars and dark matter. We show that recent kinematic data from the local group dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies suggests that
Evans, N. Wyn, Gilmore, G., Kleyna, Jan T., Read, J. I., Wilkinson, M. I.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

The ISLAnds Project. III. Variable Stars in Six Andromeda Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies [PDF]

, 2017
We present a census of variable stars in six M31 dwarf spheroidal satellites observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. We detect 870 RR Lyrae (RRL) stars in the fields of And I (296), II (251), III (111), XV (117), XVI (8), and XXVIII (87).
C. Martínez-Vázquez, M. Monelli, E. Bernard, C. Gallart, P. Stetson, E. Skillman, G. Bono, S. Cassisi, G. Fiorentino, K. McQuinn, A. Cole, A. McConnachie, N. Martin, A. Dolphin, M. Boylan-Kolchin, A. Aparicio, S. Hidalgo, D. Weisz   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Variable Stars in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies [PDF]

International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1973
Interest in dwarf spheroidal galaxies is motivated by a number of reasons; an important one on the occasion of this colloquium is the abundance of variable stars. The theory of stellar evolution and stellar pulsations is now able to predict from theoretical considerations characteristic properties of variable stars in the colour-magnitude diagram (Iben,
openaire   +1 more source

STELLAR SUBSTRUCTURES AROUND THE HERCULES DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXY [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2015
13 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in ...
T. A. Roderick, H. Jerjen, A. D. Mackey, G. S. Da Costa   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Properties of the Photometric Components of Lenticular Galaxies

Advances in Astronomy, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
After almost one century since their definition, the origin of lenticular galaxies is still a matter of debate. Several formation processes have been proposed in order to explain the wide variety of their observational properties. These properties could indicate that the class of lenticulars is a family formed by galaxies with different formations and ...
J. Alfonso L. Aguerri, Elias Brinks
wiley   +1 more source

The DECam MAGIC Survey: A Wide-field Photometric Metallicity Study of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

The Astrophysical Journal
The metallicity distribution function (MDF) and internal chemical variations of a galaxy are fundamental to understand its formation and assembly history.
F. O. Barbosa, A. Chiti, G. Limberg, A. B. Pace, W. Cerny, S. Rossi, J. L. Carlin, G. S. Stringfellow, V. M. Placco, K. Atzberger, J. A. Carballo-Bello, A. Chaturvedi, Y. Choi, D. Crnojević, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. P. Ji, N. Kallivayalil, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, G. E. Medina, N. E. D. Noël, A. H. Riley, D. J. Sand, A. K. Vivas, C. R. Bom, P. S. Ferguson, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, M. Navabi, J. D. Sakowska, A. Zenteno, (MAGIC & DELVE Collaborations)   +29 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Structures and Substructures of the Andromeda Satellite Dwarf Galaxies Cassiopeia III, Perseus I, and Lacerta I

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
We present results from wide-field imaging of the resolved stellar populations of the dwarf spheroidal galaxies Cassiopeia III (And XXXII) and Perseus I (And XXXIII), two satellites in the outer stellar halo of the Andromeda galaxy (M31).
Katherine L. Rhode, Nicholas J. Smith, Denija Crnojevic, David J. Sand, Ryan A. Lambert, Enrico Vesperini, Madison V. Smith, Steven Janowiecki, John J. Salzer, Ananthan Karunakaran, Kristine Spekkens   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The evolution of the photometric properties of Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies

, 2008
We investigate the present-day photometric properties of the dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group. From the analysis of their integrated colours, we consider a possible link between dwarf spheroidals and giant ellipticals.
Annibali, Aparicio, Arimoto, Bonifacio, Bonifacio, Bower, Bradamante, Bruzual, Bullock, Calura, Calura, Calura, Calura, Calzetti, Calzetti, Calzetti, Carignan, Carignan, Carrera, Cescutti, Côté, Davies, Dekel, Dolphin, F. Calura, F. Matteucci, Fenner, Ferguson, François, Freedman, G. A. Lanfranchi, Gallagher, Gallagher, Geisler, Geisler, Grebel, Greggio, Hernandez, Hurley-Keller, Ikuta, Irwin, Karick, Kauffmann, Kawata, Koch, Koch, Kroupa, Kuhn, Kunth, Lanfranchi, Lanfranchi, Lanfranchi, Lanfranchi, Lanfranchi, Larson, Lin, Majewski, Mateo, Mateo, Matteucci, Matteucci, Matteucci, Matteucci, Matteucci, Mayer, Menci, Monaco, Moore, Mori, Muñoz, Nomoto, Papaderos, Phillipps, Recchi, Renzini, Ricotti, Rizzi, Sadakane, Salpeter, Sandage, Saro, Schmidt, Schulte-Ladbeck, Shapley, Shetrone, Shetrone, Skillman, Somerville, Tamura, Thielemann, Thomsen, Tinsley, Tolstoy, Tolstoy, van den Bergh, Van den Hoeck, Venn, Woosley, Zaritsky   +98 more
core   +1 more source