Carina III

Carina III is an ultra-faint dwarf satellite galaxy near the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) discovered by the Magellanic Satellites Survey (MagLiteS) data. Situated approximately 20 kpc from the LMC and separated by only 18', Carina III exhibits distinct characteristics compared to its companion, Carina II. While both are likely dwarf galaxies, Carina III is more elongated, has a fainter absolute magnitude, a significantly more compact half-light radius, and is closer to the Sun at. These differences set Carina III apart within the pair of satellites. Carina III, along with other detected systems, forms part of a strongly anisotropic cloud of satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds. The classification as a dwarf galaxy is supported by modeling the spatial and color-magnitude stellar distributions.