SALT and RR Lyrae variables Our Galaxy, The Magellanic Clouds and the Local Group.pdf

SALT and RR Lyrae variables Our Galaxy, The Magellanic Clouds and the Local Group.pdf

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SALT and RR Lyrae variables Our Galaxy, The Magellanic Clouds and the Local Group

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 4 0 5 0 1 5 v 1 3 M a y 2 0 0 4 First Robert Stobie SALT Workshop Science with SALT Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2, 2004 D.A.H. Buckley SALT and RR Lyrae Variables: Our Galaxy, The Magellanic Clouds and the Local Group Michael Feast Astronomy Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa. mwf@artemisia.ast.uct.ac.za Abstract. A review is given of the possibilities for the study of the kinematics and metallicities of the old populations in galaxies of the Local Group using SALT/PFIS observations of RR Lyrae variables. 1. Introduction In her summary talk at the recent Carnegie Cosmology conference, Sandra Faber (2003) made two predictions: 1. “The major era of chasing cosmological parameters is now closing” 2. “Understanding galaxy formation.....will continue to occupy cosmologists for some time......But there is no fundamentally new physics 1 to be discovered there.” These are bold, perhaps rash, predictions, of the kind that are often falsified by observations and SALT could well play a part in such falsification. As regards galaxy formation, structure, and evolution, one gets some flavour of the present situation by considering the dwarf spheroidal galaxies which are often considered the simplest of systems. Below are summarized the conclusions of some papers, all on dwarf spheroidals, published in the last few months. On the one hand: Dwarf spheroidals are formed by the coalescing of clusters in dark matter halos. (astro-ph/0309202) On the other: Draco and UMi are weakly unbound systems - no significant dark matter. (astro-ph/0309207) But: Draco is not the remnant of a tidally disrupted satellite but probably is strongly dark matter dominated. (ApJ 589, 798, 2003) Though: It is impossible to reproduce the tidal tail of UMi if it has a large dark matter 1As distinct, presumably, from new and unusual applications of known physics. 1 2 Feast content. (ApJ 586, L123, 2003) But again: UMi is one of the most dark

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