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Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

The Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.7 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The Pegasus Dwarf is a member of the Local Group and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

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Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy with the legacy surveys
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationPegasus
Right ascension23h 51m 46.3s1
Declination+24° 34′ 57″1
Heliocentric radial velocity−341.6 ± 1.7 km/s2
Distance2.713 ± 0.075 Mly (831.8 ± 23 kpc)2
Apparent magnitude (V)24.62
Absolute magnitude (V)−11.62
Characteristics
TypedSph3
Apparent size (V)4.0′ × 2.0′1
Other designations
Pegasus II,1 Andromeda VI,1 Peg dSph,1 KKH 99,1 PGC 2807158

The Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal (also known as Andromeda VI or Peg dSph for short) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.7 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The Pegasus Dwarf is a member of the Local Group and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

General information

Hubble Space Telescope image of a part of the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy source ↗

The Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal is a galaxy with mainly metal-poor stellar populations.4 Its metallicity is [Fe/H] ≃ −1.3.5 It is located at the right ascension 23h51m46.30s and declination +24d34m57.0s in the equatorial coordinate system (epoch J2000.0), and in a distance of about 830 kpc from Earth and a distance of 281.6 kpc from the Andromeda Galaxy.2

The galaxy was discovered in 19996 by various authors on the Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II) films.7

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References

References

  1. "Results for object Andromeda VI (Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Retrieved March 18, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. Pickett, Connor S.; Collins, Michelle L M.; Rich, R Michael; Read, Justin I.; Charles, Emily J E.; Martin, Nicolas; Chapman, Scott; McConnachie, Alan; Savino, Alessandro; Weisz, Daniel R. (2025). "Mass modelling the Andromeda Dwarf Galaxies: Andromeda VI and Andromeda XXIII". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540 (2): 1701–1718. arXiv:2505.04475. Bibcode:2025MNRAS.540.1701P. doi:10.1093/mnras/staf796.
  3. Karachentsev, I. D.; Kashibadze, O. G. (2006). "Masses of the local group and of the M81 group estimated from distortions in the local velocity field". Astrophysics. 49 (1): 3–18. Bibcode:2006Ap.....49....3K. doi:10.1007/s10511-006-0002-6. S2CID 120973010.
  4. Van den Bergh, Sidney (May 15, 2000). The Galaxies of the Local Group. Cambridge Astrophysics. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-139-42965-8.
  5. McConnachie, A. W.; Irwin, M. J.; Ferguson, A. M. N.; Ibata, R. A.; Lewis, G. F.; Tanvir, N. (2005). "Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 356 (4): 979–997. arXiv:astro-ph/0410489. Bibcode:2005MNRAS.356..979M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08514.x.
  6. Pritzl, Barton J.; Armandroff, Taft E.; Jacoby, George H.; Da Costa, G. S. (May 2005). "The Dwarf Spheroidal Companions to M31: Variable Stars in Andromeda I and Andromeda III". The Astronomical Journal. 129 (5): 2232–2256. arXiv:astro-ph/0501083. Bibcode:2005AJ....129.2232P. doi:10.1086/428372. S2CID 9749493.
  7. Wallace Sargent. "The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II)". Caltech. Archived from the original on 2009-05-16.
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