The Far-away Blues: Exploring the Furthest Extents of the Boötes I Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy

Filion, Carrie; Wyse, Rosemary G.

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac2df1

The Far-away Blues: Exploring the Furthest Extents of the Boötes I Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy

Journal Article · Thu Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2021 · The Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2df1· OSTI ID:1983201

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Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)

Establishing the spatial extents and the nature of the outer stellar populations of dwarf galaxies is necessary for the determination of their total masses, current dynamical states, and past evolution. We here describe our investigation of the outer stellar content of the Boötes I ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, a satellite of the the Milky Way. We identify candidate member blue horizontal branch and blue straggler stars of Boötes I, both tracers of the underlying ancient stellar population, using a combination of multiband Pan-STARRS photometry and Gaia astrometry. We find a total of twenty-four candidate blue horizontal branch member stars with apparent magnitudes and proper motions consistent with membership of Boötes I, nine of which reside at projected distances beyond the nominal King profile tidal radius derived from earlier fits to photometry. We also identify four blue straggler stars of appropriate apparent magnitude to be at the distance of Boötes I, but all four are too faint to have high-quality astrometry from Gaia. The outer blue horizontal branch stars that we have identified confirm that the spatial distribution of the stellar population of Boötes I is quite extended. The morphology on the sky of these outer envelope candidate member stars is evocative of tidal interactions, a possibility that we explore further with simple dynamical models.

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Research Organization:: US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington, DC (United States). Office of Science, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

Sponsoring Organization:: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI ID:: 1983201

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal, Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 923; ISSN 0004-637X

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