PROPER MOTION OF THE LEO II DWARF GALAXY BASED ON HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE IMAGING

This article reports a measurement of the proper motion of Leo II, a dwarf galaxy that is a likely satellite of the Milky Way, based on imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope and Wide Field Camera. 3. The measurement uses compact background galaxies as standards of rest in both channels of the came...

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Main Authors: Piatek, Slawomir, Pryor, Carlton, Olszewski, Edward W.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Steward Observ
Language:en
Published: IOP PUBLISHING LTD 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624741
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/624741