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    • AN ULTRA-FAINT GALAXY CANDIDATE DISCOVERED in EARLY DATA from the MAGELLANIC SATELLITES SURVEY 

      Drlica-Wagner, A.; Bechtol, Keith; Allam, S.; Tucker, D. L.; Gruendl, R. A.; Johnson, M. D.; Walker, A. R.; James, D. J.; Nidever, D. L.; Olsen, K. A G; Wechsler, R. H.; Cioni, M. R L; Conn, B. C.; Kuehn, K.; Li, T. S.; Mao, Y. Y.; Martin, N. F.; Neilsen, E.; Noel, N. E D; Pieres, A.; Simon, J. D.; Stringfellow, G. S.; Marel, R. P Van Der; Yanny, B. (2016-12-10)
      We report a new ultra-faint stellar system found in Dark Energy Camera data from the first observing run of the Magellanic Satellites Survey (MagLiteS). MagLiteS J0644-5953 (Pictor II or Pic II) is a low surface brightness ...