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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 3.

Left: the equivalent widths (EWs) of the CaT lines vs. the measured line-of-sight (radial) velocity of the target stars. The plot shows a prominent excess of stars around 155 km s−1 ≤ vhel ≤ 185 km s−1, which we assumed to be member stars (red circles) and candidate member stars (brown triangles) of Leo VI. The gray bars show the uncertainties of the line-of-sight (radial) velocity measurement. Middle: histogram of the measured heliocentric radial velocity of the Leo VI member stars and candidate member stars overlaid with the best-fit velocity dispersion model (see Section 5.2). We note that the histograms does not capture the large uncertainties in the velocity measurements for the low-S/N stars. Right: proper motions of spectroscopic targets that are bright enough (g ≲ 21) to be measured in Gaia DR3. Three of the spectroscopically confirmed member stars that also contain Gaia proper motion measurements (red circles) are found to be clustered near ﹩{\mu }_{\delta },{\mu }_{\alpha }\cos (\delta )\sim (0,0)﹩ mas yr−1.

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