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Rubin Observatory Reveals a Dust-Shrouded Halo Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus
Aashay Pai, William Cerny, Andrew B. Pace +9
We present the discovery of the Milky Way satellite Rubin-GC1 (Rubin J1628-1735) using data from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Early Data Preview 2. The system was discov…
ELVES-Dwarf. II. A Systematic Search for Satellite Systems of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume
Jiaxuan Li, Jenny E. Greene, Shany Danieli +7
We present the Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites of Dwarf Galaxies (ELVES-Dwarf) survey, a systematic census of satellite systems around dwarf hosts in the Local Volume. Our f…
Discovery of the Distant, Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Aquarius IV with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Early Data Preview 2
William Cerny, Aashay Pai, Alex Drlica-Wagner +16
We present the discovery of Aquarius IV (Rubin J22010234) -- the first ultra-faint Milky Way satellite to be identified using data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This syste…
The Metallicity Distribution of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Segue 1
Daisy Bissonette, Alexander P. Ji, Joshua D. Simon +6
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs; stellar masses ) offer unique insights into early chemical evolution in low-mass systems. However, interpreting their metalli…
Probing the IMF in the Early Universe -- Direct measurements in the Boötes I UFD with JWST/NIRCam
Keyi Ding, Mario Gennaro, Roberto J. Avila +20
The dependence of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) on star-formation environment, particularly at low metallicities and high redshifts, remains poorly constrained. Ultra-fai…
The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program. IX. The RR Lyrae Population in WLM with HST and JWST
Catherine M. Slaughter, Evan D. Skillman, Alessandro Savino +16
RR Lyrae stars are a common, dependable Population II distance indicator, and provide an independent tracer of early star formation. Here, we utilize archival HST/ACS and JWST/NIRC…
A Chemodynamical Census of the Milky Way's Ultra-Faint Compact Satellites. I. A First Population-Level Look at the Internal Kinematics and Metallicities of 19 Extremely-Low-Mass Halo Stellar Systems
William Cerny, Ting S. Li, Andrew B. Pace +13
Deep, wide-area photometric surveys have uncovered a population of compact ( 1-15 pc), extremely-low-mass ( 20-4000 ) stellar systems in th…
The Keck/DEIMOS Stellar Archive: II. Dynamical Masses and Metallicities for a Uniform Sample of Milky Way Satellites
Marla Geha
Population-level studies of Milky Way satellites used to constrain dark matter or the threshold of galaxy formation often rely on velocity dispersions and metallicities derived fro…
Willman 1 Revisited: The Kinematics, Chemistry, and Orbital Properties of a Potentially-Disrupting Dwarf Galaxy
Camille Chiu, Marla Geha, William Cerny +4
The ultra-faint Milky Way satellite Willman 1 (W1; ; pc) was the first stellar over-density found via resolved stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Surv…
The Keck/DEIMOS Stellar Archive: I. Uniform Velocities and Metallicities for 78 Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters
Marla Geha, Debora Pelliccia, J. Xavier Prochaska +5
We present a homogeneous spectroscopic dataset of 22,339 stars in 78 Milky Way dwarf galaxy satellites and globular clusters. All data were taken with the Keck II telescope and Dee…
No Observational Evidence for Dark Matter Nor a Large Metallicity Spread in the Extreme Milky Way Satellite Ursa Major III / UNIONS 1
William Cerny, Daisy Bissonette, Alexander P. Ji +9
The extremely-low-luminosity, compact Milky Way satellite Ursa Major III / UNIONS 1 (UMaIII/U1; ; pc) was found to have a substantial velocity d…
The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Satellite Galaxies
Jonah C. Rose, Mariangela Lisanti, Paul Torrey +24
We analyze the properties of satellite galaxies around 1,024 Milky Way-mass hosts from the DREAMS Project, simulated within a CDM cosmology. Utilizing the TNG galaxy-formation m…
SAGAbg III: Environmental Stellar Mass Functions, Self-Quenching, and the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation in the Dwarf Galaxy Regime
Erin Kado-Fong, Yao-Yuan Mao, Yasmeen Asali +8
Recent efforts have extended our view of the number and properties of satellite galaxies beyond the Local Group firmly down to . A similarly complete…
Wide binaries in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy: discovery, population modeling, and a nail in the coffin of primordial black hole dark matter
Cheyanne Shariat, Kareem El-Badry, Mario Gennaro +24
We report the discovery and characterization of a wide binary population in the ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Boötes I using deep JWST/NIRCam imaging. Our sample consists of 52 candidate…
The SAGA Survey. VI. The Size-Mass Relation for Low-Mass Galaxies Across Environments
Yasmeen Asali, Marla Geha, Erin Kado-Fong +10
We investigate how Milky Way-like environments influence the sizes and structural properties of low-mass galaxies by comparing satellites of Milky Way analogs from the Satellites A…
The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program. VIII. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation History of WLM
Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Alessandro Savino +17
We measure radial stellar age gradients in the relatively isolated gas-rich dwarf irregular WLM, combining JWST NIRCam and NIRISS imaging with six archival Hubble fields over semi-…
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…
The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program VII. Stress Testing the NIRCam Exposure Time Calculator
A. Savino, M. Gennaro, A. E. Dolphin +19
We empirically assess estimates from v3.0 of the JWST NIRCam Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) using observations of resolved stars in Local Group targets taken as part of the Resolve…
HST/ACS Direct Ages of the Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies NGC 147 and NGC 185
M. Geha, D. Weisz, A. Grocholski +3
We present the deepest optical photometry for any dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxy based on Hubble Space Telescope ACS observations of the Local Group dE galaxies NGC 147 and NGC 185.…
The Discovery of an Ultra-Faint Star Cluster in the Constellation of Ursa Minor
Ricardo R. Munoz, Marla Geha, Patrick Cote +5
We report the discovery of a new ultra-faint globular cluster in the constellation of Ursa Minor, based on stellar photometry from the MegaCam imager at the Canada-France-Hawaii Te…
The SPLASH Survey: Internal Kinematics, Chemical Abundances, and Masses of the Andromeda I, II, III, VII, X, and XIV dSphs
Jason S. Kalirai, Rachael L. Beaton, Marla C. Geha +7
We present new Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic observations of hundreds of individual stars along the sightline to Andromeda's first three discovered dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) -…