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Title: Birds of a Feather? Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the Ultra-faint Satellites Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
Contributing Org.:
DES Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1631140
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1616763; OSTI ID: 1659590; OSTI ID: 1688699; OSTI ID: 1785516
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1911.08493; FERMILAB-PUB-19-583-E
Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357; oai:inspirehep.net:1766554; TRN: US2200747
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359; SC0019193; AC02-76SF00515; AST-1714873; HST-GO-14734; AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 892; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

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Simon, J. D., Li, T. S., Erkal, D., Pace, A. B., Drlica-Wagner, A., James, D. J., Marshall, J. L., Bechtol, K., Hansen, T., Kuehn, K., Lidman, C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Reil, K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., and Walker, A. R. Birds of a Feather? Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the Ultra-faint Satellites Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab7ccb.
Simon, J. D., Li, T. S., Erkal, D., Pace, A. B., Drlica-Wagner, A., James, D. J., Marshall, J. L., Bechtol, K., Hansen, T., Kuehn, K., Lidman, C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Reil, K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., & Walker, A. R. Birds of a Feather? Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the Ultra-faint Satellites Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7ccb
Simon, J. D., Li, T. S., Erkal, D., Pace, A. B., Drlica-Wagner, A., James, D. J., Marshall, J. L., Bechtol, K., Hansen, T., Kuehn, K., Lidman, C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Reil, K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., and Walker, A. R. Tue . "Birds of a Feather? Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the Ultra-faint Satellites Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7ccb. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1631140.
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title = {Birds of a Feather? Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the Ultra-faint Satellites Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V},
author = {Simon, J. D. and Li, T. S. and Erkal, D. and Pace, A. B. and Drlica-Wagner, A. and James, D. J. and Marshall, J. L. and Bechtol, K. and Hansen, T. and Kuehn, K. and Lidman, C. and Allam, S. and Annis, J. and Avila, S. and Bertin, E. and Brooks, D. and Burke, D. L. and Rosell, A. Carnero and Carrasco Kind, M. and Carretero, J. and da Costa, L. N. and De Vicente, J. and Desai, S. and Doel, P. and Eifler, T. F. and Everett, S. and Fosalba, P. and Frieman, J. and García-Bellido, J. and Gaztanaga, E. and Gerdes, D. W. and Gruen, D. and Gruendl, R. A. and Gschwend, J. and Gutierrez, G. and Hollowood, D. L. and Honscheid, K. and Krause, E. and Kuropatkin, N. and MacCrann, N. and Maia, M. A. G. and March, M. and Miquel, R. and Palmese, A. and Paz-Chinchón, F. and Plazas, A. A. and Reil, K. and Roodman, A. and Sanchez, E. and Santiago, B. and Scarpine, V. and Schubnell, M. and Serrano, S. and Smith, M. and Suchyta, E. and Tarle, G. and Walker, A. R.},
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