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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 5.

Left: the absolute V-band magnitude, MV, vs. the azimuthally averaged physical half-light radius, R1/2, of Leo VI and the population of known Local Group globular clusters and dwarf galaxies. Leo VI’s morphological properties are consistent with those of a dwarf galaxy. Middle: the systemic metallicity, [Fe/H], vs. the absolute V-band magnitude of Leo VI and the population of Local Group dwarf galaxies. The overlaid black line represents the V-band absolute luminosity–metallicity relation (“LZR”) found in E. N. Kirby et al. (2013), while the dashed black line represents the metallicity floor of [Fe/H] = −2.61 proposed for faint systems (S. W. Fu et al. 2023) Right: the line-of-sight velocity dispersion, σv,los, vs. absolute V-band magnitude of the population of Local Group dwarf galaxies.

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