Astronomy:Cetus III
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| Cetus lll | |
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| Observation data | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 02h 05m 19.4s |
| Declination | −04° 16′ 12.0″ |
| Distance | 818,652 ly |
| Group or cluster | Milky Way subgroup |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | Ultra-faint dwarf |
| Half-light radius (physical) | 90 |
Cetus lll is an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) that is a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. It is located at a distance of 251 kiloparsecs in the constellation of Cetus. It has a half-light radius of 90 parsecs.[1]
It was identified as a statistically significant overdensity of stars by the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey. Its small size made it invisible to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Homma, Daisuke; Chiba, Masashi; Okamoto, Sakurako; Komiyama, Yutaka; Tanaka, Masayuki; Tanaka, Mikito; Ishigaki, Miho N.; Hayashi, Kohei et al. (January 2018). "Searches for new Milky Way satellites from the first two years of data of the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam survey: Discovery of Cetus III" (in en). Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 70: S18. doi:10.1093/pasj/psx050. ISSN 0004-6264. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018PASJ...70S..18H/abstract.
External links
NAME Cetus III Dwarf Galaxy on SIMBAD, Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
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