A New Galaxy in the Local Group: the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy

Details A New Galaxy in the Local Group: the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy A New Galaxy in the Local Group: the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy

1997-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706173v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

AJ in press, 15 pages, 7 figures, figure 2 in b/w for space saving, full postscript version available at http://www.ast.cam.

Scientific paper

10.1086/118530

We report the discovery of new member of the Local Group in the constellation of Antlia. Optically the system appears to be a typical dwarf spheroidal galaxy of type dE3.5 with no apparent young blue stars or unusual features. A color-magnitude diagram in I, V-I shows the tip of the red giant branch, giving a distance modulus of 25.3 +/- 0.2 (1.15 Mpc +/- 0.1) and a metallicity of -1.6 +/- 0.3. Although Antlia is in a relatively isolated part of the Local Group it is only 1.2 degrees away on the sky from the Local Group dwarf NGC3109, and may be an associated system.

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