Crater 2 is a low-surface-brightness dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way,[1] located approximately 380,000 ly from Earth. Its discovery in 2016 revealed significant gaps in astronomer's understanding of galaxies possessing relatively small half-light diameters and suggested the possibility of many undiscovered dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.[2] Crater 2 was identified in imaging data from the VST ATLAS survey.[2]
The galaxy has a half-light radius of ∼1100pc, making it the fourth largest satellite of the Milky Way.[1] It has an angular size about double of that of the moon.[2][3] Despite the large size, Crater 2 has a surprisingly low surface brightness, implying that it is not very massive.[4] In addition, its velocity dispersion is also low, suggesting it may have formed in a halo of low dark matter density.[5] Alternatively, it may be a result of tidal interactions with it and larger galaxies, such as the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud,[4] but according to some simulations, this would not explain the relatively large size.[5]
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Ji, Alexander P.; Koposov, Sergey E.; Li, Ting S.; Erkal, Denis; Pace, Andrew B.; Simon, Joshua D.; Belokurov, Vasily; Cullinane, Lara R.; Da Costa, Gary S.; Kuehn, Kyler; Lewis, Geraint F.; MacKey, Dougal; Shipp, Nora; Simpson, Jeffrey D.; Zucker, Daniel B.; Hansen, Terese T.; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; S5 Collaboration (2021). "Kinematics of Antlia 2 and Crater 2 from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S 5)". The Astrophysical Journal. 921 (1): 32. arXiv:2106.12656. Bibcode:2021ApJ...921...32J. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac1869. S2CID235624056.
Borukhovetskaya, Alexandra; Navarro, Julio F.; Errani, Raphaël; Fattahi, Azadeh (2022). "Galactic tides and the Crater II dwarf spheroidal: A challenge to LCDM?". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512 (4): 5247–5257. arXiv:2112.01540. Bibcode:2022MNRAS.512.5247B. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac653.
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