J/AJ/133/270 Metallicities and ages in Leo II dSph (Koch+, 2007) ================================================================================ Complexity on small scales. II. Metallicities and ages in the Leo II dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Koch A., Grebel E.K., Kleyna J.T., Wilkinson M.I., Harbeck D.R., Gilmore G.F., Wyse R.F.G., Evans N.W. =2007AJ....133..270K ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, nearby ; Photometry, SDSS ; Abundances Keywords: galaxies: abundances - galaxies: dwarf - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: individual (Leo II) - galaxies: stellar content - galaxies: structure - Local Group Abstract: We present metallicities and ages for 52 red giants in the remote Galactic dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy Leo II. These stars cover the entire surface area of Leo II and are radial velocity members. We obtained medium-resolution multifiber spectroscopy with FLAMES as part of a Large Program with the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, Chile. The metallicities were determined based on the well-established near-infrared Ca II triplet technique. Description: Our observations of Leo II were taken as part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Large Program 171.B-0520(A), which aims at elucidating the kinematic and chemical characteristics of Galactic dSphs. Five fields in Leo II were observed with FLAMES at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). We refer the reader to Paper I (Koch et al., 2006, Cat. for details on observing strategy, data reduction, and calibration techniques. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table3.dat 83 52 Measured properties of radial velocity members in Leo II -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/AJ/131/895 : Stars in the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Koch+, 2006) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 A4 --- [KGK2007] Star identification 6- 7 I2 h RAh Hour of Right Ascension (J2000) 9- 10 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000) 12- 15 F4.1 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000) 17 A1 --- DE- Sign of Declination (J2000) 18- 19 I2 deg DEd Degree of Declination (J2000) 21- 22 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000) 24- 25 I2 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000) 27- 30 F4.2 arcmin r Elliptical radius 32- 36 F5.2 mag Vmag Johnson-Cousins V band magnitude 38- 42 F5.2 mag gmag SDSS g band magnitude (1) 44- 47 F4.2 mag g-r SDSS (g-r) color index (1) 49- 52 F4.2 mag g-i SDSS (g-i) color index (1) 54- 57 F4.2 0.1nm W' Reduced Ca II triplet width in Angstroms 59- 62 F4.2 0.1nm e_W' Uncertainty in W' 64- 68 F5.2 --- [Fe/H] Derived [Fe/H] abundance (2) 70- 73 F4.2 --- e_[Fe/H] Uncertainty in [Fe/H] (2) 75- 78 F4.1 Gyr Age ? Derived age 80 I1 Gyr e_Age ? Lower limit uncertainty in Age 82- 83 I2 Gyr E_Age ? Upper limit uncertainty in Age -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Given in the photometric system of the SDSS. Note (2): [Fe/H] and the respective uncertainty are on the scale of Carretta & Gratton (1997, Cat. ) and given following eq. 7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal ================================================================================ (End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 11-Dec-2008