Andromeda X

RA:

01 : 06.6

Dec:

+44 : 48

Type:

dSph

RV:

Distance:

2,900 kly

Apparent Dimension:

7 arc min

Diameter:

Brightness:

16.1 mag vis

Abs. Mag:

Mass:

Andromeda X is another dwarf spheroidal satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31; this one was discovered in 2005 by resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), by Zucker et.al. (2006).

References

• Daniel B. Zucker, David Martinez-Delgado, Eric F. Bell, Hans-Walter Rix, Eva K. Grebel, Jon A. Holtzman, Rene A.M. Walterbros, Constance M. Rockosi, Donald G. York, J.C. Barentine, Howard Brewington, Michael Harvanek, S.J. Kleinman, Jurek Krzesinski, Dan Long, Eric H. Nelson, Jr., Atsuko Nitta, and Stephanie A. Snedden, 2006. To appear in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters [Preprint: astro-ph/0601599]

Last Modification: January 28, 2006