An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy
An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy
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古老矮星系周围的延伸光环
DOI:
10.1038/s41550-020-01285-w
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发表时间:
2021
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影响因子:
14.1
通讯作者:
Norris, John E.
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Chiti, Anirudh;Frebel, Anna;Simon, Joshua D.;Erkal, Denis;Chang, Laura J.;Necib, Lina;Ji, Alexander P.;Jerjen, Helmut;Kim, Dongwon;Norris, John E.
The Milky Way is surrounded by dozens of ultrafaint (<105L☉) dwarf satellite galaxies, –. They are the remnants of the earliest galaxies, as confirmed by their ancient and chemically primitive,stars. Simulations, –suggest that these systems formed within extended dark matter halos and experienced early galaxy mergers and feedback. However, the signatures of these events would lie outside their core regions, where spectroscopic studies are challenging. Here we identify members of the Tucana II ultrafaint dwarf galaxy out to nine half-light radii, demonstrating the system to be markedly more spatially extended and chemically primitive than previously found. The distant stars in this galaxy are, on average, extremely metal poor (≲1/1000 of the solar iron abundance), affirming Tucana II as the most metal-poor known galaxy. We observationally establish an extended dark matter halo surrounding an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy out to 1 kpc, with a total mass of >107M☉, consistent with a generalized Navarro–Frenk–White density profile. The extended nature of Tucana II suggests that it may have undergone strong bursty feedback or been the product of an early galactic merger,. We demonstrate that spatially extended stellar populations in ultrafaint dwarf galaxies,are observable, opening up the possibility for detailed studies of the stellar halos of relic galaxies.
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