Details on Acronym: VCO | |
| VCO | (Virgo Compact Object) |
| Write: | <<VCO JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS>> |
| N: | 9 |
| Object: | G in ClG + Poss. GlCl (SIMBAD class: Unknown = Object of Unknown Nature) |
| Stat: | is completely incorporated in Simbad |
| Note: | Identification of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies and other luminous compact objects in the Virgo Cluster. Spectroscopy has been carried out of targets with B = 16 to 20 mag that are unresolved or barely resolved in ground-based imaging. These are mostly more luminous than the brightest classical globular clusters of Virgo Cluster galaxies. See also [JDJ2006] for the numbered format. |
| Ref: | =2006AJ....131..312J |
| by | JONES J.B. , DRINKWATER M.J., JUREK R., PHILLIPPS S., GREGG M.D., BEKKI K., COUCH W.J., KARICK A., PARKER Q.A., SMITH R.M. |
| Astron. J., 131, 312-324 (2006) | |
| Discovery of ultracompact dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster. | |
| o | Table 2: <[JDJ2006] N> (Nos 1-9) = <VCO JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS> N=9. |
| Origin | of the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5 |