A MegaCam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. III. Photometric and Structural Parameters
@article{Muoz2018AMS, title={A MegaCam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. III. Photometric and Structural Parameters}, author={Ricardo R. Mu{\~n}oz and Patrick C{\^o}t{\'e} and Felipe A. Santana and Marla C. Geha and Joshua D. Simon and Grecco A. Oyarz{\'u}n and Peter B. Stetson and S. George Djorgovski}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2018}, volume={860} }
We present structural parameters from a wide-field homogeneous imaging survey of Milky Way satellites carried out with the MegaCam imagers on the 3.6 m Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope and 6.5 m Magellan-Clay telescope. Our survey targets an unbiased sample of “outer halo” satellites (i.e., substructures having galactocentric distances greater than 25 kpc) and includes classical dSph galaxies, ultra-faint dwarfs, and remote globular clusters. We combine deep, panoramic gr imaging for 44…
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