Discovery of a new Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Candidate in UNIONS: Bo\"otes V

We present the discovery of Bo\"otes V, a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidate. This satellite is detected as a resolved overdensity of stars during an ongoing search for new Local Group dwarf galaxy candidates in the UNIONS photometric dataset. It has a physical half-light radius of 26.9$^{+...

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Hauptverfasser:	Smith, Simon E. T, Jensen, Jaclyn, Roediger, Joel, Sestito, Federico, Hayes, Christian R, McConnachie, Alan W, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles, Gwyn, Stephen, Magnier, Eugene, Chambers, Ken, Hammer, Francois, Hudson, Mike, Martin, Nicolas, Navarro, Julio, Scott, Douglas
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Physics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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