WFPC2 Observations of Two dSph Galaxies in the M81 Group

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2001-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106166v1

A&A 375, 359-365 (2001)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20010716

We have obtained HST WFPC2 and ground-based images of two low surface brightness dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the M81 group, FM1 and KKH57. Their colour-magnitude diagrams show red giant branches with tips at I = 23.77 +- 0.14 and I = 23.97 +- 0.17, respectively. The derived true distance moduli, 27.66 +- 0.16 and 27.96 +- 0.19, agree well with the mean distance modulus of the M81 group, 27.84 +- 0.05. Absolute V magnitudes of the galaxies (-11.46 and -10.85), their colours ((B-V) = 0.88 and 0.80), and central surface brightnesses ($\Sigma_{0,V}$ = 24.8 and 24.4 mag/$\sq\arcsec$) are in the range of other dSph companions of M81, M31, and Milky Way. With two new objects the maximum projected radius of the dwarf spheroidal subsystem around M81 is 380 kpc.

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