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A Pride of Satellites in the Constellation Leo? Discovery of the Leo VI Milky Way Satellite Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy with DELVE Early Data Release 3

  • Authors: C. Y. Tan, W. Cerny, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace, M. Geha, A. P. Ji, T. S. Li, M. Adamów, D. Anbajagane, C. R. Bom, J. A. Carballo-Bello, J. L. Carlin, C. Chang, A. Chaturvedi, A. Chiti, Y. Choi, M. L. M. Collins, A. Doliva-Dolinsky, P. S. Ferguson, R. A. Gruendl, D. J. James, G. Limberg, M. Navabi, D. Martínez-Delgado, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, G. E. Medina, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, D. L. Nidever, N. E. D. Noël, A. H. Riley, J. D. Sakowska, D. J. Sand, J. Sharp, G. S. Stringfellow, C. Tolley, D. L. Tucker, A. K. Vivas

C. Y. Tan et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal 979 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Diagnostic plots for Leo VI constructed with the deeper follow-up DECam photometric data. Left: smoothed isochrone-filtered spatial density of stars in the region around the Leo VI. The system appears as a significant overdensity against a relatively constant background. Center left: smoothed isochrone-filtered spatial density of galaxies. Center right: CMD of stars that are within 4﹩^{\prime} ﹩ of the centroid of the system. Right: color–magnitude Hess diagram of the foreground stars within 4﹩^{\prime} ﹩ of the centroid of Leo VI minus the background stars in a concentric annulus with radius from 12﹩^{\prime} ﹩ to 12﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{{\rm{^{\prime} }}}﹩65. We use the Ultrafaint GAlaxy LIkelihood (ugali) best-fit old (τ ∼ 13.3 Gyr), metal-poor (Z = 0.0001, [Fe/H] ∼ −2.2) PARSEC isochrone with a distance modulus of (m − M)0 = 20.2 for this figure.

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