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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 6.

Left: the average density within the half-light radius, ρ1/2, vs. distance of the pericenter, rperi, of Leo VI and other MW satellites (A. B. Pace et al. 2022). The solid black line represents twice the enclosed MW density as a function of radius, while the dashed lines represent 20 and 200 times the enclosed MW density. If a satellite is located below the solid line, its half-light radius is estimated to be bigger than its Jacobi (tidal) radius and it is likely to be tidally disrupting (A. B. Pace et al. 2022). Right: the magnitude of the 3D Galactocentric velocity, ∣V3D,GC∣, vs. the Galactocentric distance, dGC, of Leo VI and other nearby satellite galaxies. The dashed lines represented the escape velocity of the potentials from gala’s MilkyWayPotential potential. Leo VI is likely a bound system, and thus it is likely to have reached its orbital pericenter at least once in the past.

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