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astro-ph.GA2020★ 84 cited
An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy
Anirudh Chiti, Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon +7
The Milky Way is surrounded by dozens of ultra-faint (< solar luminosities) dwarf satellite galaxies. They are the surviving remnants of the earliest galaxies, as confirmed…
astro-ph.SR2020★ 49 cited
SPISEA: A Python-Based Simple Stellar Population Synthesis Code for Star Clusters
M. W. Hosek, J. R. Lu, C. Y. Lam +4
We present SPISEA (Stellar Population Interface for Stellar Evolution and Atmospheres), an open-source Python package that simulates simple stellar populations. The strength of SPI…
astro-ph.GA2020★ 38 cited
Stellar metallicities from SkyMapper photometry I: A study of the Tucana II ultra-faint dwarf galaxy
Anirudh Chiti, Anna Frebel, Helmut Jerjen +2
We present a study of the ultra-faint Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxy Tucana II using deep photometry from the 1.3m SkyMapper telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia. Th…