Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
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The Pegasus dwarf galaxy (center cluster).
The Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal (also known as Pegasus dSph, Pegasus II, Andromeda VI, or KKH 99) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy and a companion of the Andromeda Galaxy in the Local Group.
General information
Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal is a galaxy with mainly metal poor stellar populations. It is located at the right ascension 23h51m46.30s and declination +24d34m57.0s in the equatorial coordinate system (epoch J2000.0), and in a distance of 775 ± 35 kpc from Earth and a distance of 271 kpc from the Andromeda Galaxy.
Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal was discovered in 1999 by various authors on the Second Palomar Sky Survey (POSS-II) (http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~wws/poss2.html) films.
External links
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database: Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal (http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=pegasus+dwarf+spheroidal)
- Armandroff, Jacoby, & Davies, "Low Surface Brightness Galaxies around M31", Astrophys. J. 118, 1220-1229 (1999). (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/journal/issues/v118n3/990209/990209.html)