Big fish, small fish: Two New Ultra-Faint Satellites of the Milky Way

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2010-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/1002.0504v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJL

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We report the discovery of two new Milky Way satellites in the neighboring constellations of Pisces and Pegasus identified in data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Pisces II, an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy lies at the distance of ~180 kpc, some 15 degrees away from the recently detected Pisces I. Segue 3, an ultra-faint star cluster lies at the distance of 16 kpc. We use deep follow-up imaging obtained with the 4-m Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to derive their structural parameters. Pisces II has a half-light radius of ~60 pc, while Segue 3 is twenty times smaller at only 3pc.

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