A tiny Galactic dust cloud projected onto NGC 3269?
| dc.creator | Dirsch, B. | |
| dc.creator | Richtler, T. | |
| dc.creator | Gomez, M. | |
| dc.date | 2005-05-26 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:24:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:24:24Z | |
| dc.description | We report on new observations obtained with the Magellan Clay-telescope of a tiny dust patch in the Sa-galaxy NGC 3269 in the Antlia galaxy cluster. It has already been suspected to be a projected Galactic foreground cloud. In this case a size of about 4 arcsec and a maximum absorption of ~1 mag in the B-band would make it unique so far. We present further evidence for its Galactic nature from imaging under excellent seeing conditions (0.3-0.6 arcsec). This dust cloud could be the first optically identified counterpart of a new type of molecular cloud recently discovered by Heithausen (2004). | |
| dc.description | Accepted for publication in AJ. 10 pages, 3 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505541 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505541 | |
| dc.identifier | Astron.J.130:1141-1144,2005 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1086/432509 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/195179 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | A tiny Galactic dust cloud projected onto NGC 3269? | |
| dc.type | text |