What can Gaia proper motions tell us about Milky Way dwarf galaxies?
| Autor: | Jin, Shoko, Helmi, Amina, Breddels, Maarten |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We present a proper-motion study on models of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sculptor, based on the predicted proper-motion accuracy of Gaia measurements. Gaia will measure proper motions of several hundreds of stars for a Sculptor-like system. Even with an uncertainty on the proper motion of order 1.5 times the size of an individual proper-motion value of ~10 mas/century, we find that it is possible to recover Sculptor's systemic proper motion at its distance of 79 kpc. Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure; to appear in the proceedings of the GREAT-ITN conference on "The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia", Barcelona (Dec 1-5 2014) |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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