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The structural complexity of the dwarf galaxies of the Local Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2006

Alan W. McConnachie ,
Nobuo Arimoto  and
Mike J. Irwin
Alan W. McConnachie
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., V8P 1A1, Canada email: [email protected]
Nobuo Arimoto
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
Mike J. Irwin
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.
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Abstract

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We have undertaken a large, multi-colour, photometric, survey of distant (D > 500 kpc) Local Group dwarf galaxies with the Subaru SuprimeCam wide field camera. These data reach to below the horizontal branch level of these systems, to a depth equivalent to earlier HST WFPC2 studies but over an area ∼ 100 times larger, making them ideal for studies of the global stellar content and structural characteristics of these systems. All eight of our targets show radial gradients and spatially distinct, multiple structural components. This implies that dwarf galaxies in general possess multiple stellar components, akin to larger galaxies. Dynamical models of these systems which do not account independently and consistently for each individual density component may be limited in their applicability.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S241: Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies , December 2006 , pp. 361 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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