Phoenix Dwarf

Irregular Galaxy Phoenix Dwarf (ESO 245- G 007, PCG 6830), type Irr, in Phoenix

RA:: 01 : 51.1
Dec:: -44 : 27
Type:: Irr
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Distance:: 1600 kly :
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Phoenix Dwarf was discovered in 1976 by H.E. Schuster and R.M. West (Schuster and West 1976) and first taken for a globular cluster candidate. Its nature as a dwarf galaxy was discovered in 1977 by R. Canterna and P.J. Flower of the University of Washington on deep photographic plates taken at the 4-m Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile in August 1976 (Canterna and Flower, 1977). In their first estimate, they derived a distance of about 6 million light years. This has later been refined to 1..2 million light years.

The image in this page has been obtained by the Local Group Survey team headed by Phil Massey of Lowell Observatory.

References:

R. Cantera and P.J. Flowers, 1977. A new dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation Phoenix. Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 212, p. L57-L58 (March 1, 1977) [ADS: 1977ApJ...212L..57C]
Schuster and West, 1976. Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 49, p. 129-131 (May 1976) [ADS: 1976A&A....49..129S]

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