Discovery of an unusual dwarf galaxy in the outskirts of the milky way

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 656, Issue 1 II, 2007, Pages

  Irwin, M J ^a   Belokurov, V ^a   Evans, N W ^a   Ryan Weber, E V ^a   De Jong, J T A ^b   Koposov, S ^b   Zucker, D B ^a   Hodgkin, S T ^a   Gilmore, G ^a   Prema, P ^a   Hebb, L ^c   Begum, A ^a   Fellhauer, M ^a   Hewett, P C ^a   Kennicutt Jr , R C ^a   Wilkinson, M I ^a   Bramich, D M ^a   Vidrih, S ^a   Rix, H W ^b   Beers, T C ^d   Barentine, J C ^e   Brewington, H ^e   Harvanek, M ^e   Krzesinski, J ^e,f   Long, D ^e   Nitta, A ^g   Snedden, S A ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^g GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: individual (Leo); Local group

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847397895     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512183     Document Type: Article

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