Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies: a new class of compact stellar system discovered in the Fornax Cluster

M. J. Drinkwater, K. Bekki, W. J. Couch +3

We have used the 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain a complete spectroscopic sample of all objects in the magnitude range, Bj= 16.5 to 19.8, regardless of…