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20 April 2024

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Serendipitous discovery of RR Lyrae stars in the Leo V ultra-faint galaxy
Gustavo E. Medina ; Ricardo R. Muñoz ; A. Katherina Vivas ; Francisco Förster ; Jeffrey L. Carlin ; Jorge Martinez ; Lluis Galbany ; Santiago González-Gaitán ; Mario Hamuy ; Thomas de Jaeger ; Juan Carlos Maureira ; Jaime San Martín ;
Date:	31 Jul 2017
Abstract:	During the analysis of RR Lyrae stars discovered in the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) taken with the Dark Energy Camera at the 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, we found a group of three very distant, fundamental mode pulsator RR Lyrae (type ab). The location of these stars agrees with them belonging to the Leo V ultra-faint satellite galaxy, for which no variable stars have been reported to date. The heliocentric distance derived for Leo V based on these stars is 173 +/- 5 kpc. The pulsational properties (amplitudes and periods) of these stars locate them within the locus of the Oosterhoff II group, similar to most other ultra-faint galaxies with known RR Lyrae stars. This serendipitous discovery shows that distant RR Lyrae stars may be used to search for unknown faint stellar systems in the outskirts of the Milky Way.
Source:	arXiv, 1708.0009
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