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Battaglia, G.; Tolstoy, E.; Helmi, A.; Irwin, M. J.; Letarte, B.; Jablonka, P.; Hill, V.; Venn, K. A.; Shetrone, M. D.; Arimoto, N.; Primas, F.; Kaufer, A.; Francois, P.; Szeifert, T.; Abel, T.; Sadakane, K.
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VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/A+A/459/423. Originally published in: 2006A&A...459..423B
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2006
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We present the results of the DART imaging and CaII triplet (CaT) survey
of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) at ESO. We collected
hundreds of low resolution spectra of Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars in
the CaT region, using VLT/FLAMES in Medusa mode, with the GIRAFFE
spectrograph (grating LR8, resolving power R~6500). We list the results
for the targets with a S/N per Angstrom >10 and an error in velocity
<5km/s, because we found this to be the minimum for an accurate
determination of velocity and equivalent width. We checked the sample to
weed out any spurious object (e.g., broken fibres, background galaxies,
foreground stars, spectra not consistent with RGBs). We use a 2.5sigma
cut from the system velocity to derive which stars are probable velocity
members of the Fornax dSph. We transform the equivalent width of the CaT
lines of probable velocity members into metallicity ([Fe/H]) using the
relation derived by Rutledge et al. (1997PASP..109..907R) and combining
the CaT lines as in Tolstoy et al. (2001MNRAS.327..918T). The errors in
[Fe/H] are based on S/N computations and adjusted to agree with repeated
measurements.
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