| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 152, 2017
Wide-Field Variability Surveys: A 21st Century Perspective – 22nd Los Alamos Stellar Pulsation – Conference Series Meeting
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| Article Number | 04006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 2 | |
| Section | The spectroscopic perspective | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715204006 | |
| Published online | 08 September 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715204006
Whiting 1: Confirmation of its accretion by the Milky Way
1 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Astrofísica, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, 782-0436 Macul, Santiago, Chile
2 Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Santiago, Chile
3 European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Córdova 3107, Casilla 19001, Santiago, Chile
4 Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Mönchhofstr. 12-14, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
5 INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
6 Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
Published online: 8 September 2017
We investigate the association of Whiting 1 with the Sagittarius tidal stream by obtaining radial velocities for a sample of 101 stars observed with VIMOS. Our results reveal the presence of a component of the Sagittarius tidal stream with a radial velocity – and distance – compatible with that of the globular cluster. Therefore, we conclude that Whiting1 was formed in the interior of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy and later accreted by the Milky Way. In addition, our data also reveal the detection for the first time of an ancient wrap of the Sagittarius tidal stream along the same line-of-sight and at the same heliocentric distance.
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