矮椭球星系

矮椭球星系（英语：Dwarf spheroidal galaxy，缩写：dSph）是天文学中的一个术语，使用在小且低亮度的星系。它们的尘埃很少，拥有较老的恒星族群。它们是在本星系群中发现的，几乎都是银河系和仙女座星系（M31）的伴星系。虽然在外观和性质上与矮椭圆星系相似，例如很少或根本没有气体或尘埃，也没有最近的恒星形成，但它们的形状近似于扁球体，并且亮度通常更低。

NGC 147（左）和天炉座矮星系（右）。这两个是最早被发现的矮椭球星系。

尽管dSphs的半径远大于球状星团的半径，但由于它们的光度和低表面亮度，而很难找到它们。矮椭球星系的光度范围很广，已知的矮椭球星系的光度跨度有好几个数量级^[1]。它们的光度非常低，以至于亮度最低的已知矮椭球星系小熊座、船尾座和天龙座中矮星系的质光比（M/L）比银河系^[2]。矮椭球星系也几乎没有气体，也没有近期的恒星形成^[3]^[4]。当涉及到本星系群时，dsph主要出现在银河系和M31^[5]^[6]。

1938年发现的第一批矮椭球星系是在玉夫座和天炉座^[2]。截至2007年，史隆数位巡天又发现11个dSph^[7]。到2015年，又发现了更多的超黯淡dSph，都是银河系的卫星星系^[8]。2015年，在暗能量调查中发现9个潜在的dSph ^[9]。每一个dSph都是以它门所在的星座命名，例如人马座矮椭球星系，所有组成这些星系的恒星，通常都是年龄远大于10-20亿年，而形成的时间跨度也长达数十亿年^[2]

例如，船底座矮椭球星系中，98%的恒星年龄大于20亿年，它们是在30、70和130亿年前三次爆发过程中形成的^[2]。船底座的这些恒星也被发现缺乏金属^[10]。这与星团不同，因为星团中的恒星无论多寡，都是同时形成的恒星，而矮椭球星系经历了多次恒星形成的爆发^[2]。

A popular overview

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Strigari, Louis E.; Bullock, James S.; Kaplinghat, Manoj; Simon, Joshua D.; Geha, Marla; Willman, Beth; Walker, Matthew G. A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Nature. 2008-08-28, 454 (7208): 1096–1097. Bibcode:2008Natur.454.1096S. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 18756252. arXiv:0808.3772 . doi:10.1038/nature07222 （英语）.

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Sparke, L.S.; Gallagher, J.S. III. Galaxies in the Universe. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 2016: 162–165. ISBN 978-0-521-67186-6.

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NASA/ADS Search. Bibcode:1994A&ARv...6...67F （英语）.

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McConnachie, Alan W. The Observed Properties of Dwarf Galaxies in and Around the Local Group. The Astronomical Journal. 2012-06-05, 144 (1): 4. Bibcode:2012AJ....144....4M. ISSN 0004-6256. arXiv:1204.1562 . doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/1/4 （英语）.

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NASA/ADS Search. Bibcode:1998ARA&A..36..435M （英语）.

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K., Grebel, E. Star Formation Histories of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. Highlights of Astronomy. 1998, 11: 125. Bibcode:1998HiA....11..125G. arXiv:astro-ph/9806191  （英语）.

[simponandGeha20074-7] [7]
Simon, Josh; Geha, Marla, The Kinematics of the Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem, The Astrophysical Journal, November 2007, 670 (1): 313–331, Bibcode:2007ApJ...670..313S, arXiv:0706.0516 , doi:10.1086/521816

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Sergey E. Koposov; Vasily Belokurov; Gabriel Torrealba; N. Wyn Evans. Beasts of the Southern Wild. Discovery of a large number of Ultra Faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds. The Astrophysical Journal. 10 March 2015, 805 (2): 130. Bibcode:2015ApJ...805..130K. arXiv:1503.02079 . doi:10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/130.

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Bonnivard, V.; Combet, C.; Daniel, M.; et al. Dark matter annihilation and decay in dwarf spheroidal galaxies: the classical and ultrafaint dSphs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2015, 453 (1): 849–867. Bibcode:2015MNRAS.453..849B. arXiv:1504.02048 . doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1601.

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Bono, G.; Stetson, P. B.; Walker, A. R.; Monelli, M.; Fabrizio, M.; Pietrinferni, A.; Brocato, E.; Buonanno, R.; F. Caputo. On the Stellar Content of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 2010-01-01, 122 (892): 651. Bibcode:2010PASP..122..651B. ISSN 1538-3873. arXiv:1004.2559 . doi:10.1086/653590 （英语）.

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