Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 508, Issue 1, Pages 1064-1083Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2493
Keywords
stars: variables: RR Lyrae; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: individual: Eri II; Local Group; galaxies: stellar content
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Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) [AYA2017-89076-P]
- Premiale INAF MITiC
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) (Iniziativa specifica TAsP)
- project INAF Mainstream
- ERC Starting Grant [NEFERTITI H2020/808240]
- PRIN-MIUR2017
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- US Department of Energy
- US National Science Foundation
- Ministry of Science and Education of Spain,
- Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago
- Center for Cosmology
- Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University
- Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM University
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
- Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico
- Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Argonne National Laboratory
- University of California at Santa Cruz
- University of Cambridge
- Centro de Investigaciones Energ 'eticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas-Madrid
- University of Chicago
- University College London
- DES-Brazil Consortium
- University of Edinburgh
- Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich,
- Fermi NationalAccelerator Laboratory,
- University of Illinois atUrbanaChampaign
- Institut de Ci`encies de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC)
- Institut de F'isica d'Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Ludwig-Maximilians Universit at Munchen
- associated Excellence Cluster Universe
- University of Michigan
- NSF's NOIRLab
- University of Nottingham
- Ohio State University
- OzDES Membership Consortium
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Portsmouth
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Stanford University
- University of Sussex
- Texas AM University
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This study presents a detailed analysis of the variable star population in Eridanus II (Ed II), leading to the discovery of 67 RR Lyrae (RRL) stars and 2 Anomalous Cepheids. The research accurately measures the distance modulus of Eri II and determines the metallicity spread, with a focus on the central concentration of more metal-rich RRL and RRab stars. These findings suggest a low overall metallicity in Eri II, consistent with previous spectroscopic studies, and offer insights into the unique star formation burst in this faint dwarf galaxy.
We present a detailed study of the variable star population of Eridanus II (Ed II), an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy that lies close to the Milky Way virial radius. We analyse multi-epoch g, r, i ground-based data from Goodman and the Dark Energy Camera, plus F475W, F606W, F814W space data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys. We report the detection of 67 RR Lyrae (RRL) stars and 2 Anomalous Cepheids, most of them new discoveries. With the RRL stars, we measure the distance modulus of Eri II, mu(0) = 22.84 +/- 0.05 mag (D-circle dot = 370 +/- 9 kpc), and derive a metallicity spread of 0.3 dex (0.2 dex intrinsic). The colour distribution of the horizontal branch (HB) and the period distribution of the RRL stars can be nicely reproduced by a combination of two stellar models of [Fe/H] = (-2.62, -2.14). The overall low metallicity is consistent with the red giant branch bump location, 0.65 mag brighter than the HB. These results are in agreement with previous spectroscopic studies. The more metal-rich RRL and the RRab stars have greater central concentration than the more metal-poor RRL and the RRc stars that are mainly located outside similar to 1 r(h). This is similar to what is found in larger dwarf galaxies such as Sculptor, and in agreement with an outside-in galaxy formation scenario. This is remarkable in such a faint dwarf galaxy with an apparently single and extremely short (<1 Gyr) star formation burst. Finally, we have derived new and independent structural parameters for Eri II and its star cluster using our new data that are in very good agreement with previous estimates.
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