Spectroscopic study of Segue 2 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Belokurov V.
  2. Walker M.G.
  3. Evans N.W.
  4. Gilmore G.
  5. Irwin M.J.
  6. Mateo M.,Mayer L.
  7. Olszewski E.
  8. Bechtold J.
  9. Pickering T.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We announce the discovery of a new Milky Way satellite Segue 2 found in the data of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE). We followed this up with deeper imaging and spectroscopy on the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT). From this, we derive a luminosity of Mv=-2.5, a half-light radius of 34pc and a systemic velocity of ~-40km/s. Our data also provide evidence for a stream around Segue 2 at a similar heliocentric velocity, and the SEGUE data show that it is also present in neighbouring fields. We resolve the velocity dispersion of Segue 2 as 3.4km/s and the possible stream as ~7km/s. This object shows points of comparison with other recent discoveries, Segue 1, Boo II and Coma. We speculate that all four objects may be representatives of a population of satellites of satellites - survivors of accretion events that destroyed their larger but less dense parents. They are likely to have formed at redshifts z>10 and are good candidates for fossils of the reionization epoch.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. sloan-photometry
  4. radial-velocity
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2009MNRAS.397.1748B
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/397/1748
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/397/1748
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.73971748

Access

Web browser access HTML
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/397/1748
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/397/1748
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/397/1748
IVOA Table Access TAP
https://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/397/1748/table2?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/397/1748/table2?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/397/1748/table2?

History

2010-01-10T21:11:15Z
Resource record created
2010-01-10T21:11:15Z
Created
2024-07-09T20:15:27Z
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Contact

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