Cats and Dogs, Hair and a Hero: A Quintet of New Milky Way Companions

Belokurov, Vasily; B. Zucker, D.; W. Evans, N.; Kleyna, Jan; E. Koposov, S.; T. Hodgkin, S.; J. Irwin, M.; Gilmore, G.; I. Wilkinson, M.; Fellhauer, M.; M. Bramich, D.; C. Hewett, P.; Vidrih, S.; T. A. de Jong, J.; A. Smith, J.; Rix, Hans‐Walter; F. Bell, Eric; F. Ġ. Wyse, Rosemary; Jo Newberg, Heidi; A. Mayeur, P.; Yanny, B.; M. Rockosi, Constance; Y. Gnedin, Oleg; P. Schneider, Donald; C. Beers, Timothy; C. Barentine, John; Brewington, H.; Brinkmann, J.; Harvanek, Michael; J. Kleinman, S.; Krzesiński, J.; C. Long, Daniel; Nitta, A.; Snedden, S.

doi:10.1086/509718

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Cats and Dogs, Hair and a Hero: A Quintet of New Milky Way Companions

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Authors:

Vasily Belokurov

D. B. Zucker

N. W. Evans

Abstract

We present five new satellites of the Milky Way discovered in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data, four of which were followed-up with either the Subaru or the Isaac Newton Telescopes. They include four probable new dwarf galaxies -- one each in the constellations of Coma Berenices, Canes V...

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Milky Way

Physics

Globular cluster

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