2008ApJ...682L..93K


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2008ApJ...682L..93K - Astrophys. J., 682, L93-L96 (2008/August-1)

Proper motion of Milky Way dwarf spheroidals from line-of-sight velocities.

KAPLINGHAT M. and STRIGARI L.E.

Abstract (from CDS):

Proper motions for several Milky Way dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies have been determined using both ground- and space-based imaging. These measurements require long baselines and repeat observations, and typical errors are of order 10 mas/century. In this Letter, we utilize the effect of ``perspective rotation'' to show that the systematic proper motion of some dSphs can be determined to a similar precision using only stellar line-of-sight velocities. We show that including the effects of small intrinsic rotation in dSphs increases the proper motion errors by about a factor of 2. We provide error projections for future data sets and show that proposed 30 m class telescopes will measure the proper motion of a few dSphs with mas/century precision.

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Journal keyword(s): Astrometry - Cosmology: Theory - Cosmology: Dark Matter - Galaxies: Kinematics and Dynamics

Simbad objects: 10

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Number of rows : 10
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2024
#notes
1 M 31 AGN 00 42 44.330 +41 16 07.50 4.86 4.36 3.44     ~ 12659 1
2 NAME Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy G 01 00 09.4 -33 42 32   9.79 8.6 8.81   ~ 1361 4
3 NAME Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal G 02 39 59.3 -34 26 57   9.02 7.4     ~ 1744 1
4 NAME LMC G 05 23 34.6 -69 45 22     0.4     ~ 17450 0
5 NAME Carina dSph G 06 41 36.7 -50 57 58   22.14 11.0 19.47   ~ 1126 0
6 NAME UMa II Galaxy G 08 51 30.0 +63 07 48     13.3     ~ 375 0
7 Z 64-73 G 10 08 28.12 +12 18 23.4   11.3 10.0     ~ 1208 1
8 NAME Willman 1 G 10 49 21.0 +51 03 00     15.2     ~ 320 0
9 Z 126-111 G 11 13 28.13 +22 09 10.1   12.9 12.0     ~ 840 0
10 NAME Dra dSph G 17 20 14.335 +57 55 16.39   12.40 10.6     ~ 1332 1

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