The exotic chemical composition of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy

2006/12/05 by L. Sbordone, P. Bonifacio, R. Buonanno +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066385

21 pages, 5 figures, accepted by A&A

arxiv created 2006/12/05 · openalex publication_date 2007/01/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Context.The Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy is the nearest neighbor of the Milky Way. Moving along a short period quasi-polar orbit within the Halo, it is being destroyed by the tidal interaction with our Galaxy, losing its stellar content along a huge stellar stream.

Citations

• The predicted metallicity distribution of stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies
• The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and Its Siblings
• Stellar Chemical Signatures and Hierarchical Galaxy Formation
• Synthesis of the Elements in Stars
• Abundances for metal-poor stars with accurate parallaxes
• The Ital-FLAMES survey of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy

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