6 papers
Hubble Astrometry for the Local Group and Beyond in the 2030s
S. Tony Sohn, Paul Bennet, Kevin Andrew McKinnon +23
Hubble's long, stable astrometric baseline creates a rare opportunity for discovery in the Local Group and beyond. Many nearby galaxies, streams, and star clusters already have arc…
Encounters Between M33 and Present-Day M31 Satellites Hint at a Previous Group Accretion
Ekta Patel, Paul Bennet, Sangmo Tony Sohn +2
This work investigates whether two known Andromeda (M31) satellites, Pisces (LGS 3) and Andromeda XVI, have interacted with M33, M31's most massive satellite. CDM predictions i…
The Proper Motion of Draco II with HST using Multiple Reference Frames and Methodologies
Jack T. Warfield, Kevin A. McKinnon, Sangmo Tony Sohn +13
We present proper motion (PM) measurements for Draco II, an ultra-faint dwarf satellite of the Milky Way. These PMs are measured using two epochs of Hubble Space Telescope Advanced…
The Orbits of Isolated Dwarfs in the Local Group from New 3D Kinematics: Constraints on First Infall, Backsplash, and Quenching Mechanisms
Paul Bennet, Ekta Patel, Sangmo Tony Sohn +8
It is commonly supposed that quenched field dwarfs near the edge of the Local Group (LG) are backsplash galaxies, having previously orbited within the Milky Way (MW) or M31's viria…
Kinematical Modeling of the Resolved Stellar Outskirts of M32: Constraints on Tidal Stripping Scenarios
Ivanna Escala, Douglas Grion Filho, Puragra Guhathakurta +8
As the only compact elliptical close enough to resolve into individual stars, the satellite dwarf galaxy M32 provides a unique opportunity for exploring the origins of such rare ga…
The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies IV. Survey Overview and Lifetime Star Formation Histories
A. Savino, D. R. Weisz, A. E. Dolphin +35
From orbits of HST imaging, we present deep homogeneous resolved star color-magnitude diagrams that reach the oldest main sequence turnoff and uniformly measured star forma…