A Probable New Globular Cluster in the Galactic Disk

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2008-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1719v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, submitted to AJ on 10 July 2008

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-6256/136/5/2102

We report the discovery of a probable new globular cluster in the disk of the Milky Way. Visible in 2MASS and the GLIMPSE survey, it has an estimated foreground extinction of A_V ~ 24 mag. The absolute magnitude of the cluster and the luminosity function of the red giant branch are most consistent with that of an old globular cluster with a mass of a few times 10^5 solar masses at a distance of 4-8 kpc.

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