Segue 2
Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Segue 2, type dSph,
in Aries
- RA: 02 : 19 : 16.0
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- Dec: +20 : 10 : 31
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- Type: dSph
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- RV:
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- Distance: kly
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- Apparent Dimension: arcmin
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- Diameter:
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- Brightness: mag
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- Abs. Mag:
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- Mass:
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Discovered by Belokurov et.al. in 2007.
.. more to come soon ..
References:
- V. Belokurov, M.G. Walker, N.W. Evans, G. Gilmore,
M.J. Irwin, M. Mateo, L. Mayer, E. Olszewski, J. Bechtold, and
T. Pickering, 2009.
The discovery of Segue 2: a prototype of the population of satellites of
satellites.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 397, Issue 4,
pp. 1748-1755 (August 2009).
[ADS: 2009MNRAS.397.1748B] -
[Preprint: 0903.0818]
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