IJKs photometry of late-type stars in Draco dSph

This allows us to describe Draco's late-type stellar population across the whole galaxy at a photometric level 2mag deeper than the 2MASS survey. We detected the red giant branch (RGB) and measured the magnitude of the tip of the RGB in the three bands.

From that in the I band we obtain a distance modulus of (m-M)_0=19.49+/-0.06(stat)+/-0.15(sys), in excellent agreement with a measurement from RR Lyrae stars. The peak of the (J-Ks)_0_ histogram at different M_Ks_ suggests that Draco has a mean [Fe/H]=-1.95+/-1.26 while fiducial RGB tracks of Galactic globular clusters indicate a mean [Fe/H]=-1.33+/-0.72 where the error corresponds to the spread around the mean value. There are significant differences between the colour-magnitude diagrams of stars in the inner, medium and outer areas of the galaxy.