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蜻蜓44星系

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蜻蜓44星系
觀測資料
星座后髮座
赤經13h 00m 58.0s[1]
赤緯+26° 58′ 35″[1]
視星等 (V)22.0; 19.4 [1]
特徵
大小70,000
其他名稱
SDSS J130057.99+265839.7
參見:星系星系列表

蜻蜓44星系后髮座星系團中的一個超稀疏星系[2][3][4]。根據觀測其旋轉速度判斷其質量為一萬億太陽質量,約和銀河系的質量相同。這也和周圍觀測到的90個球狀星團一致。不過此星系發出的光只有銀河系的1%[5]。該星係由蜻蜓望遠鏡頭陣列(Dragonfly Telephoto Array)發現[6]

2016年8月時,科學家指出蜻蜓44星系幾乎完全是由暗物質組成[7][8][9]

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參考資料

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  2. ^ Scientists discover the fluffiest galaxies. phys.org. 14 May 2015 [2016-08-31]. (原始內容存檔於2016-08-26). 
  3. ^ Van Dokkum, Pieter; et al. Forty-seven milky way-sized, extremely diffuse galaxies in the Coma-Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 7 January 2015 [31 August 2016]. (原始內容存檔於2017-06-06). 
  4. ^ Dragonfly 44: Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy Made Mostly of Dark Matter. Aug 2016. [2016-08-31]. (原始內容存檔於2020-11-12). 
  5. ^ Crosswell, Ken. The Milky Way’s dark twin revealed. Nature News. 26 July 2016 [30 July 2016]. (原始內容存檔於2016-10-13). 
  6. ^ Rachel Feltman. A new class of galaxy has been discovered, one made almost entirely of dark matter. Washington Post. 25 August 2016 [2016-11-01]. (原始內容存檔於2020-12-02). 
  7. ^ Van Dokkum, Pieter; et al. A High Stellar Velocity Dispersion and ~100 Globular Clusters For The Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 25 August 2016 [27 August 2016]. (原始內容存檔於2019-08-30). 
  8. ^ Hall, Shannon. Ghost galaxy is 99.99 per cent dark matter with almost no stars. New Scientist. 25 August 2016 [27 August 2016]. (原始內容存檔於2019-04-11). 
  9. ^ Feltman, Rachael. A new class of galaxy has been discovered, one made almost entirely of dark matter. The Washington Post. 26 August 2016 [26 August 2016]. (原始內容存檔於2018-04-02).