Boötes I
Galaxy in the constellation Boötes
The Boötes Dwarf Galaxy (Boo I dSph ) is a galaxy discovered in 2006, which appears faint, with a luminosity of 100,000 L ☉ and an absolute magnitude of –5.8. It lies about 197,000 light-years (60.4 kiloparsecs ) away in the constellation Boötes . This dwarf spheroidal galaxy appears to be tidally disrupted [ 1] by the Milky Way Galaxy, which it orbits , and has two stellar tails that cross over to form a cross.[citation needed ] Tidally disrupted galaxies usually only form one tail.[citation needed ] The galaxy appears to be significantly elongated, with an ellipticity of ε = 0.68 ± 0.15 .[ 3]
Like many of the ultrafaint dwarf spheroidals, the entire galaxy appears fainter than the Rigel system (absolute magnitude –7.84).[ 4] Even so, it is one of the more luminous UFDs.[ 5] It is metal-poor, like other UFDs, with a mean metallicity of −2.34.[ 5]
The stellar population of Boötes I is mostly very old stars. The two populations have essentially the same age, 13.4 billion and 13.3 billion years, respectively, with most of the stars being of the latter population.[ 6]
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^ a b c d e f g h Belokurov, V.; Zucker, D. B.; Evans, N. W.; Wilkinson, M. I.; et al. (2006). "A Faint New Milky Way Satellite in Bootes". The Astrophysical Journal . 647 (2): L111 – L114 . arXiv :astro-ph/0604355 . Bibcode :2006ApJ...647L.111B . doi :10.1086/507324 . S2CID 15348323 .
^ "NAME Bootes Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2006-12-20 .
^ Longeard, Nicolas; Jablonka, Pascale; Arentsen, Anke; Thomas, Guillaume F.; Aguado, David S.; Carlberg, Raymond G.; Lucchesi, Romain; Malhan, Khyati; Martin, Nicolas; McConnachie, Alan W.; Navarro, Julio F.; Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Sestito, Federico; Starkenburg, Else; Yuan, Zhen (2022). "The Pristine dwarf galaxy survey – IV. Probing the outskirts of the dwarf galaxy Boötes I" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 516 (2): 2348– 2362. arXiv :2107.10849 . Bibcode :2022MNRAS.516.2348L . doi :10.1093/mnras/stac1827 .
^ Shultz, M.; Wade, G. A.; Petit, V.; Grunhut, J.; Neiner, C.; Hanes, D.; MiMeS Collaboration (2014). "An observational evaluation of magnetic confinement in the winds of BA supergiants" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 438 (2): 1114. arXiv :1311.5116 . Bibcode :2014MNRAS.438.1114S . doi :10.1093/mnras/stt2260 .
^ a b Jenkins, Sydney A.; Li, Ting S.; Pace, Andrew B.; Ji, Alexander P.; Koposov, Sergey E.; Mutlu-Pakdil, Burçin (2021). "Very Large Telescope Spectroscopy of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies. I. Boötes I, Leo IV, and Leo V" . The Astrophysical Journal . 920 (2): 92. arXiv :2101.00013 . Bibcode :2021ApJ...920...92J . doi :10.3847/1538-4357/ac1353 . S2CID 230433692 .
^ Brown, Thomas M.; Tumlinson, Jason; Geha, Marla ; Simon, Joshua D.; Vargas, Luis C.; Vandenberg, Don A.; Kirby, Evan N.; Kalirai, Jason S.; Avila, Roberto J.; Gennaro, Mario; Ferguson, Henry C.; Muñoz, Ricardo R.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Renzini, Alvio (2014). "The Quenching of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Reionization Era" . The Astrophysical Journal . 796 (2): 91. arXiv :1410.0681 . Bibcode :2014ApJ...796...91B . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/91 . S2CID 10097277 .
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