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

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        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.
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        2299/22336
        Abstract
        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 (μ = 28.5+1 -1 mag arcsec-2 within its half-light radius) resolved overdensity of old and metal-poor stars located at a heliocentric distance of 45+5 -4 kpc. The physical size (r1/2 = 46+15 -11) and low luminosity (Mv = -3.2+0.4 -0.5 mag) of this satellite are consistent with the locus of spectroscopically confirmed ultra-faint galaxies. MagLiteS J0644-5953 (Pic II) is located 11.3+3.1 -0.9 kpc from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and comparisons with simulation results in the literature suggest that this satellite was likely accreted with the LMC. The close proximity of MagLiteS J0644-5953 (Pic II) to the LMC also makes it the most likely ultra-faint galaxy candidate to still be gravitationally bound to the LMC.
        Publication date
        2016-12-10
        Published in
        Astrophysical Journal Letters
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/833/1/L5
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/22336
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