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VLT spectrosocpy of RR Lyrae stars in the Sagittarius northern tidal stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2006

S. Duffau
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronimia, Universidad de Chile Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile email: sduffau@das.uchile.cl, mtruiz@das.uchile.cl
M. T. Ruiz
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronimia, Universidad de Chile Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile email: sduffau@das.uchile.cl, mtruiz@das.uchile.cl
R. Zinn
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Yale University, P.O. Box 208101, New Haven, CT-06520-8101, USA email: zinn@astro.yale.edu
A. K. Vivas
Affiliation:
Centro de investigaciones de Astronomia, Apartado Postal 264, Merida 501-A, Venezuela, email: akvivas@cida.ve
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Abstract

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We present VLT spectroscopy of 13 RR Lyrae variables from the QUEST survey that lie in the leading arm of the tidal stream from Sagittarius dSph galaxy. We observed these stars to measure their radial velocities and metal abundances and to complete a sample of stars from the overdensity detected by QUEST in this area of the sky. The full sample contains 42 stars, 29 observed with VLT and 13 observed with GEMINI, we report here the results from the VLT observations so far. We conclude that the new stars and stars reported before by Vivas, Zinn and Gallart (2005) are consistent with belonging to Sgr. We discuss the importance of the final third of the sample, the GEMINI targets, which will provide important constrains on models of the Sgr streams that assume different dark matter halo shapes.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

References

Vivas, A. K., Zinn, R. & Gallart, C. 2005, Astrophysical Journal 129, 189Google Scholar