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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 336, Issue 2, Pages 643-648Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05802.x
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galaxies : individual : Phoenix; galaxies : kinematics and dynamics; Local Group
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We present the results of a Very Large Telescope observing programme carried out in service mode using FORS1 on ANTU in long-slit mode to determine the optical velocities of nearby low surface brightness galaxies. As part of our programme of service observations we obtained long-slit spectra of several members of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy from which we derive an optical heliocentric radial velocity of-13 +/- 9 km s(-1) . This agrees very well with the velocity of the most promising of the H i clouds seen around Phoenix, which has a heliocentric velocity of -23 km s(-1) , but is significantly different from the recently published optical heliocentric velocity of Phoenix of -52 +/- 6km s(-1) by Gallart et al.
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