| Issue |
Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 127, Number 3, February I 1998
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| Page(s) | 409 - 419 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1998109 | |
| Published online | 15 February 1998 | |
A list of new nearby dwarf galaxy candidates*
1
Visiting astronomer, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, an der Sternwarte, 16 D-14482, Potsdam, Germany
2
Astronomical Observatory of Kiev University, Observatorna, 3, 254053, Kiev, Ukraine
3
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, N.Arkhyz, Stavropolsky Kraj, 357147, Russia
Received:
6
February
1997
Accepted:
29
May
1997
To increase completeness of the distance limited sample
of nearby galaxies from the the Kraan-Korteweg & Tammann (1979) catalogue we
undertook a search for small companions of larger known galaxies which
have corrected radial velocities within 500 km/s. Based primarely on the
POSS-II and ESO/SERC films we found 260 nearby dwarf galaxy candidates
with angular diameters 
arcmin.
More than 50% of the objects were revealed for
the first time. As we suppose, a significant part of them (about 30%) may
really belong to the Local Volume sample.
Key words: galaxies: distances and redshifts / galaxies: irregular
© European Southern Observatory (ESO), 1998