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Population gradient in the Sextans dSph: comprehensive mapping of a dwarf galaxy by Suprime-Cam

Okamoto, S.
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Arimoto, N.
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Tolstoy, E.
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2017
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

We present the deep and wide V and I-c photometry of the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) taken by the Suprime-Cam imager on the Subaru Telescope, which extends out to the tidal radius. The colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) reaches two magnitudes below the main-sequence (MS) turn-off, showing a steep red giant branch, a blue and a red horizontal branch (BHB and RHB, respectively), a sub-giant branch (SGB), an MS and blue stragglers (BSs). We construct the radial profile of each evolutionary phase and demonstrate that blue HB stars are more spatially extended, while red HB stars are more centrally concentrated than the other components. The colour distribution of SGB stars also varies with the galactocentric distance; the inner SGB stars shift bluer than those in the outskirts. The radial differences in the CMD morphology indicate the existence of the age gradient. The relatively younger stars (similar to 10 Gyr) are more centrally concentrated than the older ones (similar to 13 Gyr). The spatial contour maps of stars in different age bins also show that the younger population has a higher concentration and higher ellipticity than the older one. We also detect the centrally concentrated bright BS stars, the number of which is consistent with the idea that a part of these stars belongs to the remnant of a disrupted star cluster discovered in the previous spectroscopic studies.

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DOI
10.1093/mnras/stx086
Web of Science ID

WOS:000398418900013

Author(s)
Okamoto, S.
Arimoto, N.
Tolstoy, E.
Jablonka, P.  
Irwin, M. J.
Komiyama, Y.
Yamada, Y.
Onodera, M.
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Oxford Univ Press

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

467

Issue

1

Start page

208

End page

217

Subjects

galaxies: dwarf

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galaxies: individual: Sextans

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Local Group

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galaxies: stellar content

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galaxies: structure

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REVIEWED

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May 30, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/137930
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