That may mean that there's another way to create this kind of
isolated dwarf galaxy — and it could offer clues to how galaxies in the universe form.
The newcomer, called Kks3, is a tiny,
isolated dwarf galaxy that sits almost 7 million light - years away in the constellation Hydrus.
We investigate the merger histories of
isolated dwarf galaxies based on a suite of 15 high - resolution cosmological zoom - in simulations, all...
Kris Pardo, a graduate student working under the astrophysicist David Spergel at Princeton University, assembled a sample of 81
isolated dwarf galaxies.
«
Isolated dwarf galaxies are the cleanest test you can get,» Pardo said.
Not exact matches
Hence,
isolated compact elliptical and
isolated quiescent
dwarf galaxies are tidally stripped systems that ran away from their hosts.
Now Sabrina Stierwalt at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, and her colleagues have combed the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and found seven
isolated clusters containing nothing but
dwarf galaxies.
Hunting for merging
dwarf galaxies in various environments, Paudel and Sengupta found UGC 4703, an interacting pair of
dwarf galaxies that are located near the
isolated spiral
galaxy NGC 2718.