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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 643, 期 2, 页码 L103-L106出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/505216
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galaxies : dwarf; galaxies : individual (Canes Venatici); Local Group
In this Letter, we announce the discovery of a new dwarf satellite of the Milky Way, located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was found as a stellar overdensity in the north Galactic cap using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (SDSS DR5). The satellite's color-magnitude diagram shows a well-defined red giant branch as well as a horizontal branch. As judged from the tip of the red giant branch, it lies at a distance of similar to 220 kpc. Based on the SDSS data, we estimate an absolute magnitude of M-V similar to -7.9 a central surface brightness of mu(0,V) similar to 28 mag arcsec(-2), and a half-light radius of similar to 8.'5 (similar to 550 pc at the measured distance). The outer regions of Canes Venatici appear extended and distorted. The discovery of such a faint galaxy in proximity to the Milky Way strongly suggests that more such objects remain to be found.
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