Carbon star survey in the Local Group. VII. NGC 3109 a galaxy without a stellar halo

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2003-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309619v1

Astron.Astrophys.410:795-802,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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10.1051/0004-6361:20031286

We present a CFH12K wide field survey of the carbon star population in and around NGC 3109. Carbon stars, the brightest members of the intermediate-age population, were found nearly exclusively in and near the disk of NGC 3109, ruling out the existence of an extensive intermediate-age halo like the one found in NGC 6822. Over 400 carbon stars identified have < M_I > = -4.71, confirming the nearly universality of mean magnitude of C star populations in Local Group galaxies. Star counts over the field reveal that NGC 3109 is a truncated disk shaped galaxy without an extensive stellar halo. The minor axis star counts reach the foreground density between 4' and 5', a distance that can be explained by an inclined disk rather than a spheroidal halo. We calculate a global C/M ratio of 1.75 +/- 0.20, a value expected for such a metal poor galaxy.

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