We report detection of HI-emission from three 'new' dwarf galaxies Perseus A, Perseus B, and Camelopardalis D in the IC342/Maffei group of galaxies and of Draco A. The actual number of (probable) members of this group increases to 19 galaxies. Its velocity dispersion is 87 km/s. With a distance of 2.2+-0.5 Mpc this group is the nearest to the Local Group and might have considerable dynamical influence on the Local Group.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9907344,
title = {New Dwarf Galaxies in the IC342/Maffei Group},
author = {W. K. Huchtmeier and I. D. Karachentsev and V. E. Karachentseva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9907344},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, uses paspconf.sty to be published in IAU Coll. 174 "Small Galaxy Groups" M. Valtonen, C. Flynn (eds.) pasp conf.series