Browsing by Author "Rodgers, C. T."

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    Stellar archaeology in the Milky Way Halo . Variable stars and stellar populations in the new Milky Way satellites discovered by the SDSS
    (2010) Musella, I.; Clementini, G.; Ripepi, V.; Dall'Ora, M.; Marconi, M.; Greco, C.; Moretti, M. I.; Kinemuchi, K.; Di Fabrizio, L.; Smith, H. A.; Kuehn, C.; Rodgers, C. T.; Beers, T. C.; Catelan, Marcio; Pritzl, B. J.
    We summarize results from the photometric survey of the recently discovered faint Milky Way satellites: Bootes I, Coma, Ursa Major II, Canes Venatici I, Canes Venatici II and Leo IV. Our team is studying these systems to characterize their stellar populations and structural parameters, as well as their variable star content, with the aim of deriving hints on the formation process of the Galactic halo....
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    Stellar populations of the newly discovered satellites of the Milky Way .
    (2008) Dall'Ora, M.; Clementini, G.; Ripepi, V.; Kinemuchi, K.; Greco, C.; Kuehn, C.; Musella, I.; Rodgers, C. T.; Di Fabrizio, L.; Beers, T. C.; Catelan, Marcio; Marconi, M.; Pritzl, B. J.; Smith., H. A.
    We have carried out an extensive observing campaign on the new dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) recently discovered by the SDSS, with the aim of characterizing their stellar populations and structural properties, as well as their variable star content. First preliminary results are presented for the Canes Venatici II, the Coma and the Ursa Major II dSphs, based on data collected at a variety of telescopes, and reaching each galaxy's Main Sequence Turn-Off (MSTO)....