3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
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, ) offer unique insights into early chemical evolution in low-mass systems. However, interpreting their metallicity distributio…
astro-ph.GA2026
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…
astro-ph.GA2025
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…