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一对Boots:一颗新的Milky Way卫星

A Pair of Bootes: A New Milky Way Satellite

S. M. Walsh, H. Jerjen, B. Willman

摘要:

作为南部天空寻找暗淡的银河系矮星系卫星的准备工作的一部分,我们报告了斯隆数字巡天数据发布5中发现的恒星过密度,位于距离最近发现的玻色子矮星仅1. 5度的角距离处。通过采用复杂的数据挖掘算法,检测到的密度远远高于统计噪音,与任何编目物体都不对应。利用恒星星族合成模型叠加的等时线显示,该区域的色星等图具有一个古老(12 Gyr)、贫金属(${\rm Fe/H}\approx-2.0$)的恒星星族的特征,其暂定距离为60 kpc,显然与牧夫座矮星的日心距离相同。我们估计这个新天体的总星等为$M_{V}\sim-3.1\pm1.1$等,半光半径为$r_{h}=4'.1\pm1'.6$($72\pm28$ pc),将其置于球状星团和矮星系之间的明显的$40<r_{h}<100$ pc空隙中,只有另一个最近发现的银河系卫星后发座。

英文摘要:

As part of preparations for a southern sky search for faint Milky Way dwarf galaxy satellites, we report the discovery of a stellar overdensity in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5, lying at an angular distance of only 1.5 degrees from the recently discovered Bo{ö}tes dwarf. The overdensity was detected well above statistical noise by employing a sophisticated data mining algorithm and does not correspond to any catalogued object. Overlaid isochrones using stellar population synthesis models show that the color-magnitude diagram of that region has the signature of an old (12 Gyr), metal-poor (${\rm Fe/H}\approx-2.0$) stellar population at a tentative distance of 60 kpc, evidently the same heliocentric distance as the Boötes dwarf. We estimate the new object to have a total magnitude of $M_{V}\sim-3.1\pm1.1$ mag and a half-light radius of $r_{h}=4'.1\pm1'.6$ ($72\pm28$ pc) placing it in an apparent $40<r_{h}<100$ pc void between globular clusters and dwarf galaxies, occupied only by another recently discovered Milky Way Satellite, Coma Berenices.

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