Wide Field Observations of the Ursa Minor dSph Galaxy

Martínez-Delgado, D.; Aparicio, A.
Bibliographical reference

The stellar content of Local Group galaxies, Proceedings of the 192nd symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Cape Town, South Africa, 7-11 September 1998, Publisher: San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), 1999, Edited by Patricia Whitelock and Russell Cannon, ISBN: 1886733821., p.179

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1999
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Description
Ursa Minor (UMi) is one of the closest satellites of the Milky Way (d=69 kpc). It is possibly a disrupted dSph interacting with the external Galactic halo. This makes its study quite necessary in the forementioned context. In this paper we present preliminary results of a wide field photometry survey of UMi and discuss the presence of an intermediate-age population and tidal tails in it.