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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 559, Issue 1, Pages L17-L20Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/323723
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galaxies : abundances; galaxies : individual (Sagittarius dSph); galaxies : stellar content
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We present the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) (J-K, K) color-magnitude diagram for the region within 1 degrees of the center of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Using the slope of the red giant branch (RGB), we determine a mean metallicity for the main stellar population of [Fe/H] = -0.5 +/- 0.2. The Sagittarius RGB possesses a blue tail that overlaps with the foreground Milky Way giant branch and suggests that approximately one-third of the RGB is more metal-poor than [Fe/H] similar to -1. Direct comparison with the Large Magellanic Cloud confirms the metal-rich nature of the bulk of the Sagittarius population. Our result is marginally consistent with the even higher metallicities determined from high-resolution spectroscopy.
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