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Battaglia, G.; Tolstoy, E.; Helmi, A.; Irwin, M.
Bibliographical reference
Chemical Abundances and Mixing in Stars in the Milky Way and its Satellites, ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. ISBN 978-3-540-34135-2. Springer-Verlag, 2006, p. 260
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2006
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Description
We present the first results of CaII triplet observations from
VLT/FLAMES for Sculptor, Fornax and Sextans dSphs. For each galaxy, we
obtained accurate velocity and metallicity measurements for hundreds of
stars out to and beyond the tidal radius. In each case, we find clear
evidence for the presence of two distinct stellar components with
different spatial distribution and kinematics: the metal rich component
is more centrally concentrated and kinematically colder than the metal
poor one.