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Chemical Abundances in the Leiptr Stellar Stream: A Disrupted Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy?
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Number of Authors: 142025 (English)In: Open Journal of Astrophysics, ISSN 2565-6120, Vol. 8Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Chemical abundances of stellar streams can be used to determine the nature of a stream’s progenitor. Here we study the progenitor of the recently discovered Leiptr stellar stream, which was previously suggested to be a tidally disrupted halo globular cluster. We obtain high-resolution spectra of five red giant branch stars selected from the Gaia DR2 STREAMFINDER catalog with Magellan/MIKE. One star is a clear non-member. The remaining four stars display chemical abundances consistent with those of a low-mass dwarf galaxy: they have a low mean metallicity, ⟨[Fe/H]⟩ = −2.2; they do not all have identical metallicities; and they display low [α/Fe] ∼ 0 and [Sr/Fe] and [Ba/Fe] ∼ −1. This pattern of low α and neutron-capture element abundances is only found in intact dwarf galaxies with stellar mass ≲ 105 M⊙. Although more data are needed to be certain, Leiptr’s chemistry is consistent with being the lowest-mass dwarf galaxy stream without a known intact progenitor, possibly in the mass range of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. Leiptr thus preserves a record of one of the lowest-mass early accretion events into the Milky Way.

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2025. Vol. 8
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Chemical abundances, Dwarf galaxies, Globular star clusters, High resolution spectroscopy, Stellar streams
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-246478DOI: 10.33232/001c.139013Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105008457857OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-246478DiVA, id: diva2:1995402
Available from: 2025-09-05 Created: 2025-09-05 Last updated: 2025-09-05Bibliographically approved

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