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Pisces Overdensity

Clump of stars within the halo of the Milky Way From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Pisces Overdensity is a clump of stars in the Milky Way's halo, which may be a disrupted dwarf spheroidal galaxy.[5] It is situated in the Pisces constellation and was discovered in 2009 by analysis of distribution of RR Lyrae stars in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's data.[2] The galaxy is located at the distance of about 80 kpc from the Sun and moves towards it with a speed of about 75 km/s.[4]

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The Pisces Overdensity is one of the faintest satellites of the Milky Way.[5] Its mass is estimated to be at least 105 Solar masses.[2] However it has a large size of about several degrees (around 1 kpc) and may be in a transitional phase between a gravitationally bound galaxy and completely unbound system.[4] The Pisces Overdensity is located near the plane, where the Magellanic Clouds lie. There may exist a connection between the Magellanic Stream and this galaxy.[2]

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