Astronomical Data Center

ADCADC/CDS Standard Document for Catalog:
/journal_tables/MNRAS/261/657/

The following is the "ReadMe" document that describes this ADC catalog. You can access the files described here in three ways:

1. Use the ADC Data Viewer Suite to visualize the data. [preview
2. Get the data files via anonymous FTP. (See Note.) [ftp


J/MNRAS/261/657  Deep CCD photometry of the dwarf spheroidal gal (Demers 1993)
================================================================================
Deep CCD photometry of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo II.
         Demers S., Irwin M.J
         Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 261, 657 (1993)
================================================================================
Keywords: galaxies: individual: Leo II - Local Group -
          galaxies: stellar content.

Abstract:
    We present a deep colour-magnitude diagram of the central 7 x 7
    arcmin2 region of Leo II. The diagram shows a well-defined giant
    branch and a red horizontal branch, heavily populated on the red
    side but extending far into the blue. Having a low metallicity
    ([Fe/H]=-1.9), the Leo II diagram is similar to those of outer
    halo clusters suffering from the second-parameter syndrome. From
    the mean apparent magnitude of candidate RR Lyrae stars,
    (VHB) = 22.10, we estimate the distance of Leo II to be 215 kpc,
    a value similar to previous estimates. A number of variable-star
    candidates are identified and two new very red giants have been
    found. Comparison with the other dwarf spheroidals of the Local
    Group reveals that Leo II belongs to the group of four small and
    faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies.


File Summary:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FileName     Lrecl    Records    Explanations
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ReadMe          80          .    This file
table3          32       2039    Stars brighter than V=22.5 in Leo II
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Table 1: Journal of observations.
    -----------------------------------------
    UT date          fil-  Exp.  FWHM   air-
    (mid exposure)   tre   (s)    (")   mass
    -----------------------------------------
    08 44 26-3-1992     B  998     1.0  1.011
    09 06 26-3-1992     B  998     1.0  1.002
    09 23 26-3-1992     V  499     0.7  1.001
    09 47 26-3-1992     V  499     0.7  1.009
    11 00 26-3-1992     B  998     0.9  1.097
    11 18 26-3-1992     V  499     0.8  1.137
    11 32 26-3-1992     V  499     0.8  1.175
    11 52 26-3-1992     B  998     1.0  1.240
    -----------------------------------------
    08 33 27-3-1992     V  600     1.0  1.015
    08 53 27-3-1992     B 1200     1.0  1.005
    09 18 27-3-1992     B 1200     0.9  1.002
    09 54 27-3-1992     V  600     1.0  1.015
    11 53 27-3-1992     B 1200     1.1  1.285
    12 17 27-3-1992     B 1200     1.2  1.370
    12 37 27-3-1992     V  600     1.5  1.480
    12 52 27-3-1992     V  600     1.7  1.587
    -----------------------------------------

Table 2: Coefficients determined from standards.
    (lowercase letters refer to instrumental magnitudes,
     uppercase letters refer to standard magnitudes)
               X = airmass, k"_bv=-0.03
    --------------------------------------------------
    v = alpha_v + V + beta_v(B-V) + k_v.X
    --------------------------------------------------
                    Night1  Night2     Adopted
    alpha_v         -0.706  -0.676  -0.69l   +/-0.022
    beta_v           0.0059  0.0108  0.0083  +/-0.0035
    k_v              0.248   0.258   0.253   +/-0.007
    rms of resid.    0.039   0.037
    number          36      36
    --------------------------------------------------
    b-v = [alpha_bv + beta_bv(B-V)][1-k"_bv] + k'_bv.X
    --------------------------------------------------
                    Night1  Night2     Adopted
    alpha_bv         0.589   0.514  0.537    +/-0.03l
    beta_bv          0.967   0.971  0.968    +/-0.009
    k'_bv            0.058   0.088  0.085    +/-0.022
    rms of resid.    0.029   0.033  0.034
    number          33      34     67
    --------------------------------------------------

Table 4: Magnitudes and colours of carbon and very red stars.
      --------------------------
      No.   id      V       B-V
      --------------------------
      1
      2     2508    20.19   1.50
      3      730    19.43   2.46
      4     2697    19.82   2.12
      5     2387    l9.70   1.61
      6     1592    18.79   1.85
      7     1574    19.37   1.64
      -      339    19.39   1.83
      -      786    l9.l6   1.67
      --------------------------

Table 5: Properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies.
    (Core and Tidal radii as defined by King models)
    -------------------------------------------------------------
      Name       Mv   ref    d      ref     rc       rt     ref
                            kpc             pc       pc
    -------------------------------------------------------------
    Fornax     -13.7  (1)   132     (6)     640     4100    (10)
    Leo I      -12.0  (2)   270     (2)     350     1100    (11)
    And I      -11.7  (1)   720     (7)     500     2800    (1)
    And II     -11.7  (1)   720     (7)     330     3600    (1)
    Sculptor   -10.7  (1)    80     (8)     210     2200    (12)
    And III    -10.2  (1)   720     (7)     300     1300    (1)
    Sextans    -10.0  (1)    87     (9)     380     2300    (13)
    Phoenix    - 9.9  (3)   415     (3)
    Leo II     - 9.9  (4)   215     (4)     210      625    (14)
    Carina     - 9.4  (5)   100     (5)     200      600    (5)
    Ursa Minor - 8.9  (3)    65     (5)     150      900    (5)
    Draco      - 8.5  (5)    75     (5)     150      450    (5)
    -------------------------------------------------------------

References:
     (1) Caldwell et al. (1992), AJ 103, 840
     (2) Lee et al. (1992), in 11th Santa-Cruz Workshop in Astron. Astrophys.,
                "The Globular Cluster Galaxy Connection"
     (3) van de Rydt, Demers & Kunkel (1991), AJ 102, 130
     (4) this paper;
     (5) Aaronson (1986), in "Stellar Populations", Cambridge Univ. Press, 45
     (6) Demers, Kunkel & Grondin (1990), PASP 102, 632
     (7) Welch et al. (1986), ApJ 305, 583
     (8) Kunkel & Demers (1977), ApJ 214, 21
     (9) Mateo et al. (1991), AJ 101, 892
    (10) Eskridge (1988), AJ 95, 1706
    (11) Hodge (1963), AJ 68, 470
    (12) Eskridge (1988b)
    (13) Irwin et al. (1990), MNRAS 244, 16P
    (14) Demers & Harris (1983), AJ 88, 329


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1-  4  I4     ---     Id       Sequence number
   7- 10  I4     pix     x        Position along X axis (ESE)
  12- 15  I4     pix     y        Position along Y axis (NNW)
  18- 22  F5.2   mag     V        magnitude
  24- 28  F5.2   mag     B-V      color
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

History: Keypunched at CDS
================================================================================
(End)                    James Marcout,  Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]   02-Jun-1994

Go to ADC Home Page