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I Zw 18 revisited with HST/ACS and Cepheids: New Distance and Age | | A. Aloisi
; G. Clementini
; M. Tosi
; F. Annibali
; R. Contreras
; G. Fiorentino
; J. Mack
; M. Marconi
; I. Musella
; A. Saha
; M. Sirianni
; R. P. van der Marel
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16 Jul 2007 | | Abstract: | We present new V and I-band HST/ACS photometry of I Zw 18, the most
metal-poor blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy in the nearby universe. It has been
argued in the past that I Zw 18 is a very young system that started forming
stars only < 500 Myr ago, but other work has hinted that older (> 1 Gyr) red
giant branch (RGB) stars may also exist. Our new data, once combined with
archival HST/ACS data, provide a deep and uncontaminated optical
color-magnitude diagram (CMD) that now strongly indicates an RGB. The RGB tip
(TRGB) magnitude yields a distance modulus (m-M)_0 = 31.30 +/- 0.17, i.e., D =
18.2 +/- 1.5 Mpc. The time-series nature of our observations allows us to also
detect and characterize for the first time three classical Cepheids in I~Zw~18.
The time-averaged Cepheid <V> and <I> magnitudes are compared to the VI
reddening-free Wesenheit relation predicted from new non-linear pulsation
models specifically calculated at the metallicity of I Zw 18. For the one
bona-fide classical Cepheid with a period of 8.63 days this implies a distance
modulus (m-M)_0 = 31.42 +/- 0.26. The other two Cepheids have unusually long
periods (125.0 and 129.8 d) but are consistent with this distance. The coherent
picture that emerges is that I Zw 18 is older and farther away than previously
believed. This rules out the possibility that I Zw 18 is a truly primordial
galaxy formed recently (z < 0.1) in the local universe. | | Source: | arXiv, arxiv.0707.2371 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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