The Stellar Content of NGC 6789, A Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy in the Local Void
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- 26 February 2001
Abstract
We find that NGC6789 is the most nearby example of a Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy known to date. With the help of WFPC2 aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, we resolve NGC6789 into over 15,000 point sources in the V and I bands. The young stars of NGC6789 are found exclusively near the center of the galaxy. The red giant population identified at large galacticentric radii yields a distance of about 3.6 Mpc, a stellar metallicity [Fe/H] of about -2, and a minimum age of about 1 Gyr. Despite its isolated location in the Local Void,its low metallicity, and its active star formation, the properties of NGC6789 are clearly not those of a galaxy in formation.Keywords
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- Published version: The Astrophysical Journal, 551 (2), L135.
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