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A Ghost in Boötes: The Least-Luminous Disrupted Dwarf Galaxy

  • Authors: Vedant Chandra, Charlie Conroy, Nelson Caldwell, Ana Bonaca, Rohan P. Naidu, Dennis Zaritsky, Phillip A. Cargile, Jiwon Jesse Han, Benjamin D. Johnson, Joshua S. Speagle, 佳士 沈, Yuan-Sen Ting, 源森 丁, Turner Woody

Vedant Chandra et al 2022 The Astrophysical Journal 940 .

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Caption: Figure 10.

Top: H3 spectra for seven members in Specter, with the best-fitting MINESweeper model overlaid in red. The topmost star is the BHB, for which a reliable metallicity cannot be estimated. A masked telluric region is shown in gray, and we indicate strong Fe I lines in blue. Bottom: comparison between H3 spectra for the most metal-poor member in Specter, and a reference star at higher metallicity selected from the H3 catalog to have similar temperature, surface gravity, and spectral signal-to-noise ratio. Both spectra are smoothed with a 5 pixel boxcar. Note in particular the Fe line at ≈5170 Å that is much weaker in the Specter member than the reference star. We emphasize that the full-spectrum-fitting MINESweeper routine picks up on aggregate spectral details that are difficult to discern by eye. Regardless, this comparison reassures us about this member’s metallicity.

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