Nucleosynthesis in stars and the chemical enrichment of galaxies

K Nomoto, C Kobayashi… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
After the Big Bang, production of heavy elements in the early Universe takes place starting
from the formation of the first stars, their evolution, and explosion. The first supernova …

Near-field cosmology with extremely metal-poor stars

A Frebel, JE Norris - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The oldest, most metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo and satellite dwarf galaxies present an
opportunity to explore the chemical and physical conditions of the earliest star-forming …

Eight ultra-faint galaxy candidates discovered in year two of the dark energy survey

A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, ES Rykoff… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of eight new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates in the second year
of optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Six of these candidates are …

The observed properties of dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group

AW McConnachie - The Astronomical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Positional, structural, and dynamical parameters for all dwarf galaxies in and around the
Local Group are presented, and various aspects of our observational understanding of this …

The universal stellar mass–stellar metallicity relation for dwarf galaxies

EN Kirby, JG Cohen, P Guhathakurta… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present spectroscopic metallicities of individual stars in seven gas-rich dwarf irregular
galaxies (dIrrs), and we show that dIrrs obey the same mass–metallicity relation as the dwarf …

R-process enrichment from a single event in an ancient dwarf galaxy

AP Ji, A Frebel, A Chiti, JD Simon - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Elements heavier than zinc are synthesized through the rapid (r) and slow (s) neutron-
capture processes,. The main site of production of the r-process elements (such as …

The star formation histories of local group dwarf galaxies. I. Hubble space telescope/wide field planetary camera 2 observations

DR Weisz, AE Dolphin, ED Skillman… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present uniformly measured star formation histories (SFHs) of 40 Local Group (LG) dwarf
galaxies based on color–magnitude diagram (CMD) analysis from archival Hubble Space …

Multiple populations in globular clusters: Lessons learned from the Milky Way globular clusters

RG Gratton, E Carretta, A Bragaglia - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2012 - Springer
Recent progress in studies of globular clusters has shown that they are not simple stellar
populations, but rather are made up of multiple generations. Evidence stems both from …

The quenching of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in the reionization era

TM Brown, J Tumlinson, M Geha… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new constraints on the star formation histories of six ultra-faint dwarf galaxies:
Bootes I, Canes Venatici II, Coma Berenices, Hercules, Leo IV, and Ursa Major I. Our …

Star-formation histories, abundances, and kinematics of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group

E Tolstoy, V Hill, M Tosi - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Within the Local Universe galaxies can be studied in great detail star by star, and here we
review the results of quantitative studies in nearby dwarf galaxies. The color-magnitude …