A Faint New Milky Way Satellite in Bootes

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2006-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604355v2

Astrophys.J.647:L111-L114,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ (Letters), in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/507324

In this Letter, we announce the discovery of a new satellite of the Milky Way in the constellation of Bootes at a distance of 60 kpc. It was found in a systematic search for stellar overdensities in the North Galactic Cap using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (SDSS DR5). The color-magnitude diagram shows a well-defined turn-off, red giant branch, and extended horizontal branch. Its absolute magnitude is -5.8, which makes it one of the faintest galaxies known. The half-light radius is 220 pc. The isodensity contours are elongated and have an irregular shape, suggesting that Boo may be a disrupted dwarf spheroidal galaxy.

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