Andromeda III

Infobox Galaxy
name = Andromeda III
epoch = J2000
type = dSphcite web
title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
work=Results for AndIII
url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
accessdate=2006-12-18 ]
ra = RA|00|35|33.8
dec = DEC|+36|29|52
dist_ly = 2.44 ± 0.08 Mly (748 ± 24 kpc)cite journal
author=McConnachie, A. W.; Irwin, M. J.; Ferguson, A. M. N.; Ibata, R. A.; Lewis, G. F.; Tanvir, N.
title=Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies
journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
year=2005
volume=356
issue=4
pages=979–997
url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2005MNRAS.356..979M
doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08514.x ]
z = -351 ± 9 km/s
appmag_v = 15.0
size_v = 4′.5 × 3′.0
constellation name = Andromeda
notes = satellite galaxy of M31
names = AndIII, RC2 Anon 0032+36, PGC 2121

Andromeda III is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.44 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. And III is part of the Local group of galaxies and is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). And III was discovered by Sidney van den Bergh on photographic plates taken in 1970 and 1971.citation
last1 = van den Bergh
first1 = Sydney
authorlink1 = Sidney van den Bergh
journal = Astrophysical Journal
year = 1972
date = January 1972
title = Search for Faint Companions to M31
volume = 171
url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972ApJ...171L..31V
pages = L31
doi = 10.1086/180861]

ee also

* Andromeda's satellite galaxies

External links

* [http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/LG/and3.html SEDS: Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Andromeda III]

References