APOGEE chemical abundance patterns of the massive Milky Way satellites

S Hasselquist, CR Hayes, J Lian… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
survey has obtained high-resolution spectra for thousands of red giant stars distributed …

The lazy giants: APOGEE abundances reveal low star formation efficiencies in the Magellanic Clouds

DL Nidever, S Hasselquist, CR Hayes… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first APOGEE metallicities and α-element abundances measured for 3600 red
giant stars spanning a large radial range of both the Large (LMC) and Small Magellanic …

Stellar metallicity gradients of Local Group dwarf galaxies

S Taibi, G Battaglia, R Leaman, A Brooks… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. We explore correlations between the strength of metallicity gradients in Local Group
dwarf galaxies and their stellar mass, star formation history timescales, and environment …

Multiple chemodynamic stellar populations of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy

AB Pace, M Kaplinghat, E Kirby… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present a Bayesian method to identify multiple (chemodynamic) stellar populations in
dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) using velocity, metallicity, and positional stellar data …

GaiaHub: A method for combining data from the Gaia and Hubble space telescopes to derive improved proper motions for faint stars

A Del Pino, M Libralato, RP Van Der Marel… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present GaiaHub, a publicly available tool that combines Gaia measurements with
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archival images to derive proper motions (PMs). It increases …

Testable predictions of outside-in age gradients in dwarf galaxies of all types

CL Riggs, AM Brooks, F Munshi… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We use a sample of 73 simulated satellite and central dwarf galaxies spanning a stellar
mass range of 10 5.3–10 9.1 M⊙ to investigate the origin of their stellar age gradients. We …

Revealing the structure and internal rotation of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy with Gaia and machine learning

A Del Pino, MA Fardal, RP Van der Marel… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed study of the internal structure and kinematics of the core of the
Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr). Using machine-learning techniques, we have …

An extended stellar halo discovered in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal using Gaia EDR3

Y Yang, F Hammer, Y Jiao… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We have studied the extent of the Red Giant Branch stellar population in the Fornax dwarf
spheroidal galaxy using the spatially extended and homogeneous data set from Gaia EDR3 …

Internal rotation of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellites with Gaia Early Data Release 3

AM Martínez-García, A del Pino… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present an analysis of the kinematics of 14 satellites of the Milky Way (MW). We use
proper motions (PMs) from the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) and line-of-sight …

The bursty star formation history of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy revealed with the HST

V Rusakov, M Monelli, C Gallart, TK Fritz… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a new derivation of the star formation history (SFH) of the dSph galaxy Fornax in
two central regions, characterized by unprecedented precision and age resolution. It reveals …