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New Discovery: Pisces VII / Triangulum III ultra faint dwarf galaxy (UFD)

Pisces VII / Triangulum III ultra faint dwarf galaxy (UFD)

Credit: TNG, Giuseppe Donatiello

 

Pisces VII belongs to the family of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

 

Since 2013, a new satellite of M31 had not been discovered because its minor satellites are extremely weak, in fact Pisces VII is the faintest galaxy discovered so far outside the domain of the Milky Way.

 

I discovered it on 1 September 2020 in the DECam images and confirmed by the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo - TNG (image).

 

 

David Martínez-Delgado, Noushin Karim, Emily J E Charles, Walter Boschin, Matteo Monelli, Michelle L M Collins, Giuseppe Donatiello, Emilio J Alfaro, Pisces VII: discovery of a possible satellite of Messier 33 in the DESI legacy imaging surveys, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 509, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 16–24, doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2797

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