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Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies in the M101 Group and Behind it
DOI: 10.1007/s10511-019-09582-7
Bibcode: 2019Ap.....62..293K
Karachentsev, I. D.; Makarova, L. N.
We use images from the Hubble Space Telescope to determine the distances to a dozen objects with low surface brightness recently observed around the bright nearby spiral M101. Only two dwarf galaxies, M101-DwA and M101-Dw9, turn out to be actual satellites of M101 at distances of about 7 Mpc. The other objects are probably members of a distant gro…
2019
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Astrophysics
eHST
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