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'{{Infobox Galaxy | image = [[Image:Phoenix Dwarf Hubble WikiSky.jpg|300px]] | caption= Phoenix Dwarf by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] | name = Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy | epoch = [[Epoch (astronomy)#Julian years and J2000|J2000]] | type = IAm<ref name="ned">{{cite web | title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database | work=Results for Phoenix Dwarf | url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=Phoenix+Dwarf#ObjNo1 | accessdate=2007-03-15 }}</ref> | ra = {{RA|01|51|06.3}}<ref name="ned" /> | dec = {{DEC|-44|26|41}}<ref name="ned" /> | dist_ly = 1.44 ± 0.07 [[light-year|Mly]] (440 ± 20 [[parsec|kpc]])<ref name="karachentsevetal2004">{{cite journal |author1=I. D. Karachentsev |author2=V. E. Karachentseva |author3=W. K. Hutchmeier |author4=D. I. Makarov | title=A Catalog of Neighboring Galaxies | journal=Astronomical Journal | date=2004 | volume=127 | issue=4 | pages=2031–2068 | bibcode=2004AJ....127.2031K | doi=10.1086/382905}}</ref><ref name="Karachentsevetal2006">{{cite journal | author=Karachentsev, I. D. | author2=Kashibadze, O. G. | title=Masses of the local group and of the M81 group estimated from distortions in the local velocity field | journal=Astrophysics | date=2006 | volume=49 | issue=1 | pages=3–18 | bibcode=2006Ap.....49....3K | doi=10.1007/s10511-006-0002-6 }}</ref> | z = 60 ± 30 km/[[second|s]]<ref name="ned" /> | appmag_v = 13.1<ref name="ned" /> | size_v = 4′.9 × 4′.1<ref name="ned" /> | constellation name = [[Phoenix (constellation)|Phoenix]] | notes = - | names = ESO 245- G 007,<ref name="ned" /> [[Principal Galaxies Catalogue|PGC]] 6830<ref name="ned" /> }} The '''Phoenix Dwarf''' is a [[Dwarf galaxy|dwarf irregular galaxy]] discovered in 1976 by [[Hans-Emil Schuster]] and [[Richard Martin West]] and mistaken for a [[globular cluster]].<ref name="schusteretal1976">{{Cite journal | last1 = Schuster | first1 = H.-E. | last2 = West | first2 = R. M. | journal = [[Astronomy & Astrophysics]] | volume = 49 | title = A very distant globular cluster? | bibcode = 1976A&A....49..129S | pages = 129–131 | date = May 1976 | postscript = <!--None--> }}</ref><ref name="Canternaetal1977">{{Cite journal | last1 = Canterna | first1 = R. | last2 = Flower | first2 = P. J. | date = March 1977 | title = A new dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation Phoenix | journal = [[Astrophysical Journal]] | issue = Letters | volume = 212 | bibcode = 1977ApJ...212L..57C | pages = L57–L58 | doi = 10.1086/182374 | postscript = <!--None--> }}</ref> In the Catalogue of Named Galaxies, it is called '''Nivalis Phoenicis''', or the ''snowy'' galaxy.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bodifee|first1=Gerard|title=Catalogue of One Thousand Named Galaxies|url=http://www.bodifee.be/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2_CMG.pdf|accessdate=21 May 2017}}</ref> It is currently 1.44&nbsp;[[Light-year|Mly]] away from [[Earth]]. Its name comes from the fact that it is part of the [[Phoenix constellation]]. == Characteristics == The Phoenix Dwarf has an inner part of young [[star]]s which is stretched in an east-west direction and an outer part of mainly old stars that is stretched north-south. The central region's rate of [[star formation]] seems to have been relatively constant across time (Martínez-Delgado et al. 1999). In 1999, St-Germain et al. discovered a [[H I|H&nbsp;I]] region of about 10⁵ {{Solar mass|link=y}} just to the west of Phoenix. Its [[radial velocity]] is -23&nbsp;km/s and may be physically associated with Phoenix if it is found to have a similar radial velocity.<ref name="Bergh2000">{{ Cite journal | last1 = van den Bergh | first1 = Sidney | authorlink1 = Sidney van den Bergh | title = Updated Information on the Local Group | date = April 2000 | journal = The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | volume = 112 | issue = 770 | bibcode = 2000PASP..112..529V | pages = 529–536 | doi = 10.1086/316548 | postscript = <!--None--> |arxiv = astro-ph/0001040 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * {{WikiSky|name=The Phoenix Dwarf}} {{Sky|01|51|06.3|-|44|26|41|1440000}} {{Milky Way}} [[Category:Irregular galaxies]] [[Category:Dwarf irregular galaxies]] [[Category:Phoenix (constellation)]] [[Category:Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects|06830]] [[Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1976|?]]'