Astrophysical: Local Group

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    The StEllar Counterparts of COmpact high velocity clouds (SECCO) survey. II. Sensitivity of the survey and the atlas of synthetic dwarf galaxies
    The searching for StEllar Counterparts of COmpact high velocity clouds (SECCO) survey is devoted to the search for stellar counterparts within ultra compact...
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    The structure of Andromeda II dwarf spheroidal galaxy
    We analyse in detail the spatial distribution and kinematic properties of two different stellar populations in Andromeda II dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We obtained...
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    The Tucana dwarf spheroidal galaxy: not such a massive failure after all
    Context. Isolated local group (LG) dwarf galaxies have evolved most or all of their life unaffected by interactions with the large LG spirals and therefore...
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    The Undiscovered Ultradiffuse Galaxies of the Local Group
    Ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs) are attractive candidates to probe cosmological models and test theories of galaxy formation at low masses; however, they are...
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    The Variable-Star Population in Phoenix: Coexistence of Anomalous and Short-Period Classical Cepheids and Detection of RR Lyrae Variables
    We present the results of a search for variable stars in the Local Group dwarf galaxy Phoenix. Nineteen Cepheids, six candidate long-period variables, one...
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    Tidally induced velocity gradients in the Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellites
    We present a kinematic study of six dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph) satellites of the Milky Way (MW), namely Carina, Draco, Fornax, Sculptor, Sextans, and Ursa...
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    Timing the r-process Enrichment of the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II
    The ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Reticulum II (Ret II) exhibits a unique chemical evolution history, with ${72}_{-12}^{+10}$ % of its stars strongly enhanced in r...
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    Toward an Internally Consistent Astronomical Distance Scale
    Accurate astronomical distance determination is crucial for all fields in astrophysics, from Galactic to cosmological scales. Despite, or perhaps because of...
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    Tracing the stellar component of low surface brightness Milky Way dwarf galaxies to their outskirts. I. Sextans
    Aims: We present results from deep and very spatially extended CTIO/DECam g and r photometry (reaching out to 2 mag below the oldest main-sequence turn-off and...