Table · dataset · 2008
Draco MegaCam, INT and HST photometry
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The Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph), with its apparent immense mass-to-light ratio and compact size, holds many clues to the nature of the enigmatic dark matter.
Description
Here we present deep photometric studies of this dwarf galaxy, undertaken with the MegaCam Camera at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the Wide Field Camera at the Isaac Newton Telescope and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
The new photometric data cover the entirety of the galaxy, and reach i'=24.5 at 50 per cent completeness, significantly deeper than previous panoramic studies, allowing searches for tidal disturbances of much lower surface brightness than has been possible before. With these improved statistics, we find no evidence for asymmetric disturbances or tidal tails that possess more than 3 per cent of the stars found within the centre of the galaxy.
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We find that the central stellar density, as probed by the HST data, rises into the central 0.5arcmin. Uncertainties in the position of the centroid of the galaxy do not allow us to determine whether the apparent flattening of the profile interior to 0.5arcmin is reliable or not. Draco is therefore a flawless dwarf galaxy, featureless and apparently unaffected by Galactic tides.
Links
Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/375/831 ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Documentation and papers
- ADS 2007MNRAS.375..831S ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007MNRAS.375..831S ↗
publication · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/mnras/375/831 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Optical
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/mnras/375/831 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |