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BST1047+1156: An extremely diffuse and gas-rich object in the Leo I Group
J. Christopher Mihos, Christopher T. Carr, Aaron E. Watkins +2
We report the detection of diffuse starlight in an extragalactic HI cloud in the nearby Leo~I galaxy group. We detect the source, dubbed BST1047+1156, in both broadband optical and…
Stellar Populations in the Outer Disk and Halo of the Spiral Galaxy M101
J. Christopher Mihos, Patrick R Durrell, John J Feldmeier +2
We use deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging in the outskirts of the nearby spiral M101 to study stellar populations in the galaxy's outer disk and halo. Our ACS field lies 17.6 arcm…
Discovery of a vast ionized gas cloud in the M51 system
Aaron E. Watkins, J. Christopher Mihos, Matthew Bershady +1
We present the discovery of a vast cloud of ionized gas 13 (32 kpc) north of the interacting system M51. We detected this cloud via deep narrow-band imaging with the Bur…