2026ApJ...999..140G


Query : 2026ApJ...999..140G

2026ApJ...999..140G - Astrophys. J., 999, 140 (2026/March-1)

The Keck/DEIMOS Stellar Archive. I. Uniform Velocities and Metallicities for 78 Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters.

GEHA M., PELLICCIA D., PROCHASKA J.X., CERNY W., DAVIES F.B., HENNAWI J., HOLDEN B., REICHWEIN D. and WESTFALL K.B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a homogeneous spectroscopic dataset of 22,339 stars in 78 Milky Way dwarf galaxy satellites and globular clusters. All data were taken with the Keck II telescope and Deep Extragalactic Imaging Multiobject Spectrograph (DEIMOS) using the 1200G grating (spectral resolution R ≃ 6000). Based on a uniform data reduction of 411 DEIMOS masks, we present a catalog of individual stellar radial velocities, equivalent-width-based [Fe/H] metallicities, and membership estimates. The Milky Way satellites range from MV = 2 to -14 (M⋆ = 101.5-107.5M⊙); the majority of individual stars presented in these systems have magnitudes between 17 > r > 22. We additionally present redshifts for 2097 compact background galaxies and QSOs in the same magnitude range. The data were reduced to 1D spectra using PypeIt, which provides near Poisson-statistics-level sky subtraction. Radial velocities were determined via dmost, a forward modeling method first presented here, which combines both synthetic telluric and stellar templates to determine stellar radial velocities. We assess the accuracy and precision our method via comparison to thousands of repeat measurements and literature values. We determine a velocity error floor of 1.1 km s–1 and a Ca II-triplet-based metallicity error floor of 0.1 dex. We calculate internal velocity dispersions and compare to literature values, demonstrating 20%-50% improved precision over the literature in most cases. In a companion paper, we use our homogeneous catalogs to explore properties of these Milky Way satellites, including previously unpublished measurements in several systems including Boötes II and Draco II. We provide full access to the data catalogs to enable further studies.

Abstract Copyright: © 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Spectroscopy - Dwarf galaxies - Globular star clusters - Radial velocity - Metallicity

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Number of rows : 80
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 M 31 AGN 00 42 44.330 +41 16 07.50 4.86 4.36 3.44     ~ 13622 1
2 NGC 288 GlC 00 52 45.24 -26 34 57.4   10 8.13     ~ 1130 0
3 NAME Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy G 01 00 09.4 -33 42 32   9.79 8.6 8.81   ~ 1498 4
4 NAME Cetus III Dwarf Galaxy LSB 02 05 19.40 -04 16 12.0           ~ 32 0
5 NAME Tri II G 02 13 17.40 +36 10 42.4           ~ 164 0
6 NAME Segue 2 G 02 19 16.0 +20 10 31     15.2     ~ 299 0
7 MCG-06-07-001 G 02 39 59.3 -34 26 57   9.02 7.4     ~ 1894 1
8 NAME Eridanus Star Cluster GlC 04 24 44.5 -21 11 13           ~ 192 1
9 Cl Pal 2 GlC 04 46 05.79720 +31 22 51.0170           ~ 202 0
10 NAME Eridanus IV G 05 05 45 -09 30.9     14.72     ~ 15 0
11 M 79 GlC 05 24 10.59 -24 31 27.3     8.16     ~ 883 0
12 NAME Col I G 05 31.4 -28 02           ~ 60 0
13 NGC 2419 GlC 07 38 08.51 +38 52 54.9     10.05     ~ 998 0
14 Koposov 2 GlC 07 58 17.00 +26 15 19.4           ~ 85 1
15 NAME UMa II Galaxy G 08 51 30.0 +63 07 48     13.3     ~ 410 0
16 NAME Leo T G 09 34 53.4 +17 03 05     15.1     ~ 434 0
17 NAME Segue 1 G 10 07 03.2 +16 04 25     15.3     ~ 517 1
18 Z 64-73 G 10 08 28.12 +12 18 23.4   11.3 10.0     ~ 1284 1
19 NAME Sextans dSph LSB 10 13 02.9 -01 36 53   12 10.4     ~ 921 0
20 NAME UMa I Galaxy G 10 34 52.80 +51 55 12.0     14.4     ~ 355 1
21 NAME Willman 1 G 10 49 21.0 +51 03 00     15.2     ~ 345 0
22 Z 126-111 G 11 13 28.13 +22 09 10.1   12.9 12.0     ~ 899 0
23 NAME Leo VI G 11 24 18 +24 52.4           ~ 4 0
24 NAME Leo V LSB 11 31 09.60 +02 13 12.0     16.0     ~ 234 0
25 NAME Leo IV LSB 11 32 57.0 -00 32 00     15.1     ~ 419 1
26 NAME Crater Cluster GlC 11 36 16.20 -10 52 38.8           ~ 117 1
27 NAME UMa III Cl* 11 38 49.8 +31 04 42           ~ 22 0
28 Koposov 1 GlC 11 59 18.40 +12 15 35.8           ~ 81 0
29 NAME Hydra II G 12 21 42.1 -31 59 07           ~ 118 0
30 NAME Coma Dwarf Galaxy G 12 26 59.0 +23 54 15     14.1     ~ 482 1
31 M 68 GlC 12 39 27.98 -26 44 38.6     7.96     ~ 1069 0
32 NAME CVn II dSph G 12 57 09.6 +34 19 12     16.1     ~ 287 2
33 M 53 GlC 13 12 55.25 +18 10 05.4     7.79     ~ 907 0
34 NGC 5053 GlC 13 16 27.09 +17 42 00.9     9.96     ~ 675 0
35 NAME CVn I dSph G 13 28 03.5 +33 33 21     13.1     ~ 352 1
36 M 3 GlC 13 42 11.62 +28 22 38.2     6.39     ~ 2593 0
37 NAME Bootes III G 13 57 07.4 +26 46 30     12.6     ~ 115 1
38 NAME Bootes II G 13 58 00.0 +12 51 00     15.4     ~ 269 0
39 NAME Bootes Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy G 14 00 00.0 +14 30 00     12.8     ~ 491 0
40 NGC 5634 GlC 14 29 37.28 -05 58 35.1   10.69 10.05     ~ 333 0
41 NAME Munoz 1 Cl* 15 01 48.02 +66 58 07.3           ~ 29 0
42 NGC 5824 GlC 15 03 58.612 -33 04 06.70   10.28 9.56     ~ 441 0
43 Z 318-18 G 15 09 08.0 +67 13 21   13.60 10.6     ~ 1459 0
44 Cl Pal 5 GlC 15 16 05.30 -00 06 41.0   15.1       ~ 797 1
45 NGC 5897 GlC 15 17 24.40 -21 00 36.4   10.16 8.52     ~ 424 0
46 M 5 GlC 15 18 33.22 +02 04 51.7     5.95     ~ 2095 0
47 NAME Draco II Gl? 15 52 47.6 +64 33 55           ~ 138 0
48 GCl 38 GlC 16 10 59.00 +14 57 42.0           ~ 399 0
49 NAME Hercules Dwarf Galaxy G 16 31 02.0 +12 47 30     14.0     ~ 379 1
50 M 13 GlC 16 41 41.634 +36 27 40.75     5.8     ~ 2291 0
51 NGC 6229 GlC 16 46 58.641 +47 31 36.38   9.38 9.86     ~ 397 0
52 M 12 GlC 16 47 14.18 -01 56 54.7     6.07     ~ 736 0
53 M 10 GlC 16 57 09.05 -04 06 01.1     4.98     ~ 857 0
54 M 92 GlC 17 17 07.39 +43 08 09.4     6.52     ~ 2240 0
55 Z 300-12 G 17 20 14.335 +57 55 16.39   12.40 10.6     ~ 1428 1
56 NGC 6366 GlC 17 27 44.24 -05 04 47.5           ~ 344 0
57 Cl Terzan 5 Cl* 17 48 05.00 -24 46 48.0           ~ 948 1
58 IC 1276 GlC 18 10 44.26 -07 12 27.3           ~ 146 0
59 NGC 6624 GlC 18 23 40.51 -30 21 39.7           ~ 939 1
60 M 22 GlC 18 36 23.94 -23 54 17.1           ~ 1459 0
61 M 54 GlC 18 55 03.33 -30 28 47.5           ~ 1164 0
62 NAME SDG G 18 55 19.0 -30 32 43   4.5 3.6     ~ 2438 2
63 M 56 GlC 19 16 35.57 +30 11 00.5           ~ 455 0
64 NAME Sagittarius II Gl? 19 52 40.5 -22 04 05           ~ 97 0
65 M 71 GlC 19 53 46.49 +18 46 45.1           ~ 1190 0
66 M 75 GlC 20 06 04.841 -21 55 20.14     8.26     ~ 394 0
67 NGC 7006 GlC 21 01 29.465 +16 11 16.49     10.46     ~ 562 0
68 NAME Laevens 3 GlC 21 06 54.3 +14 58 48           ~ 43 0
69 NAME Segue 3 Cl* 21 21 31.0 +19 07 02           ~ 75 0
70 M 15 GlC 21 29 58.33 +12 10 01.2           ~ 3274 0
71 M 2 GlC 21 33 27.02 -00 49 23.7     6.25     ~ 1114 1
72 M 30 GlC 21 40 22.12 -23 10 47.5     7.10     ~ 1121 0
73 NAME Pegasus IV G 21 54 09 +26 37.2           ~ 15 0
74 NAME Pegasus III LSB 22 24 22.6 +05 25 12           ~ 69 0
75 NAME Aquarius 2 G 22 33 55.5 -09 19 39           ~ 66 0
76 NAME Pisces II G 22 58 31.0 +05 57 09     16.3     ~ 283 0
77 GCl 124 GlC 23 06 44.48 +12 46 19.2   15.6       ~ 307 1
78 NGC 7492 GlC 23 08 26.68 -15 36 41.3     10.48     ~ 330 0
79 NAME Aquarius III G 23 48 52 -03 29.3           ~ 6 0
80 NAME Local Group GrG ~ ~           ~ 9325 0

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