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Big fish, small fish: Two New Ultra-Faint Satellites of the Milky Way
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- 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.<br />Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1002.0504
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/712/1/L103