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2015ApJ...807...50B - Astrophys. J., 807, 50 (2015/July-1)

Eight new Milky Way companions discovered in first-year dark energy survey data.

BECHTOL K., DRLICA-WAGNER A., BALBINOT E., PIERES A., SIMON J.D., YANNY B., SANTIAGO B., WECHSLER R.H., FRIEMAN J., WALKER A.R., WILLIAMS P., ROZO E., RYKOFF E.S., QUEIROZ A., LUQUE E., BENOIT-LEVY A., TUCKER D., SEVILLA I., GRUENDL R.A., DA COSTA L.N., FAUSTI NETO A., MAIA M.A.G., ABBOTT T., ALLAM S., ARMSTRONG R., BAUER A.H., BERNSTEIN G.M., BERNSTEIN R.A., BERTIN E., BROOKS D., BUCKLEY-GEER E., BURKE D.L., CARNERO ROSELL A., CASTANDER F.J., COVARRUBIAS R., D'ANDREA C.B., DEPOY D.L., DESAI S., DIEHL H.T., EIFLER T.F., ESTRADA J., EVRARD A.E., FERNANDEZ E., FINLEY D.A., FLAUGHER B., GAZTANAGA E., GERDES D., GIRARDI L., GLADDERS M., GRUEN D., GUTIERREZ G., HAO J., HONSCHEID K., JAIN B., JAMES D., KENT S., KRON R., KUEHN K., KUROPATKIN N., LAHAV O., LI T.S., LIN H., MAKLER M., MARCH M., MARSHALL J., MARTINI P., MERRITT K.W., MILLER C., MIQUEL R., MOHR J., NEILSEN E., NICHOL R., NORD B., OGANDO R., PEOPLES J., PETRAVICK D., PLAZAS A.A., ROMER A.K., ROODMAN A., SAKO M., SANCHEZ E., SCARPINE V., SCHUBNELL M., SMITH R.C., SOARES-SANTOS M., SOBREIRA F., SUCHYTA E., SWANSON M.E.C., TARLE G., THALER J., THOMAS D., WESTER W., ZUNTZ J. (The DES Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of eight new Milky Way companions in of optical imaging data collected during the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Each system is identified as a statistically significant over-density of individual stars consistent with the expected isochrone and luminosity function of an old and metal-poor stellar population. The objects span a wide range of absolute magnitudes (MV from to), physical sizes (), and heliocentric distances (). Based on the low surface brightnesses, large physical sizes, and/or large Galactocentric distances of these objects, several are likely to be new ultra-faint satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and/or Magellanic Clouds. We introduce a likelihood-based algorithm to search for and characterize stellar over-densities, as well as identify stars with high satellite membership probabilities. We also present completeness estimates for detecting ultra-faint galaxies of varying luminosities, sizes, and heliocentric distances in the first-year DES data.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: dwarf - Local Group

Nomenclature: Table 1: [BDB2015] DES JHHMM.m+DDMM N=8.

Simbad objects: 49

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