Strangers in the night: Discovery of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy on its first Local Group infall

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 662, Issue 2 II, 2007, Pages

  Chapman, S C ^a,b,c   Penarrubia J ^b   Ibata, R ^d   McConnachie, A ^b   Martin, N ^e   Irwin, M ^a   Blain, A ^c   Lewis, G F ^f   Letarte, B ^c   Lo, K ^g   Ludlow, A ^b   O'Neil, K ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: individual (Andromeda); Galaxies: spiral; Local Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547333390     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519377     Document Type: Article

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