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William (Will) Cerny
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Astronomer-in-training. Formerly: Univ. of Chicago, now at Yale Astronomy. Big fan of the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies! he/him

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I'm a day late, but I wanted to advertise the latest paper from the DES and DELVE collaborations, led by Mitch McNanna! The paper's results include the discovery of a *very* diffuse (resolved) dwarf galaxy candidate near the LMC-mass host NGC 55 (D ~ 2 Mpc). Read it here:
arxiv.org/abs/2309.04467
Stellar density map centered on the new diffuse dwarf galaxy candidate, showing a clear concentration of black points indicative of the dwarf galaxy's presence. At the bottom of the image, an elliptical concentration of stars associated with its host, the LMC-mass galaxy NGC 55, are visible. The satellite appears to be about 1/3 the diameter of its host!
September 13, 2023 at 2:27 AM