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2012MNRAS.425L.101D - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 425, L101-L105 (2012/September-1)

The stretching of Hercules.

DEASON A.J., BELOKUROV V., EVANS N.W., WATKINS L.L. and FELLHAUER M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy of candidate blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars in the vicinity of the Hercules ultrafaint dwarf galaxy. We identify eight convincing Hercules BHB members, and a further five stars with similar systemic velocities to that of Hercules, but ∼ 0.5 kpc from the centre of the galaxy along its major axis. It is likely that these stars once belonged to Hercules, but have been tidally stripped and are now unbound. We emphasize the usefulness of looking for any gradient in the systemic velocity of this stretched system, which would further support our interpretation of the origin of its elongated and distended morphology.

E-mail: \email (AJD); \email (VB); \email (NWE)


Abstract Copyright: 2012 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2012 RAS

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: dwarf - galaxies: interactions - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - Local Group

Nomenclature: Table 2: [DBE2012] FF-NN N=17 among (Nos F1-09 to F1-21, F2-01 to F2-20, F3-02 to F3-07).

Simbad objects: 26

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