Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal

Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal

Infobox Galaxy
name = Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal
epoch = J2000
type = dSphcite web
title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
work=Results for Sextans Dwarf
url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
accessdate=2006-11-29
]
ra = RA|10|13|02.9
dec = DEC|-01|36|53
dist_ly = 290 ± 30 kly (90 ± 10 kpc)cite journal
author=I. D. Karachentsev, V. E. Karachentseva, W. K. Hutchmeier, D. I. Makarov
title=A Catalog of Neighboring Galaxies
journal=Astronomical Journal
year=2004
volume=127
pages=2031–2068
url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004AJ....127.2031K
doi=10.1086/382905
] cite journal
author=Karachentsev, I. D.; Kashibadze, O. G.
title=Masses of the local group and of the M81 group estimated from distortions in the local velocity field
journal=Astrophysics
year=2006
volume=49
issue=1
pages=3–18
url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2006Ap.....49....3K
doi=10.1007/s10511-006-0002-6
]
z = 224 ± 2 km/s
appmag_v = 12.
size_v = 30′.0 × 12′.0
constellation name = Sextans
notes = satellite galaxy of the Milky Way
names = Sextans I, LEDA 88608

The Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that was discovered in 1990 by Mike Irwin, M.T. Bridgeland, P.S. Bunclark and R.G. McMahon as the 8th satellite of the Milky Way [http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/LG/sex_dw.html] , and is named fittingly, as it is part of Sextans constellation. It is also an elliptical galaxy, and displays a redshift because it is receding from the Milky Way at 224 km/s.

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