A faint halo star cluster discovered in the Blanco Imaging of the Southern Sky Survey

Abstract

We present the discovery of a faint, resolved stellar system, BLISS J0321+0438 (BLISS 1), found in Dark Energy Camera data from the first observing run of the Blanco Imaging of the Southern Sky (BLISS) Survey. BLISS J0321+0438 (BLISS 1) is located at (RA, Dec) = (177.511, -41.772) deg with a heliocentric distance of D = 23.7${}_{-1.0}^{+1.9}$ kpc. It is a faint, Mv = 0.0${}_{-0.7}^{+1.7}$ mag, and compact, rh = 4.1 +/- 1 pc, system consistent with previously discovered faint halo star clusters. Using data from the second data release of the Gaia satellite, we measure a proper motion of $({\mu }_{\alpha }\cos \delta ,{\mu }_{\delta })$ = (-2.37 +/- 0.06, 0.16 +/- 0.04) mas/yr. Combining the available positional and velocity information with simulations of the accreted satellite population of the Large Magellanic Cloud, we find that it is unlikely that BLISS J0321+0438 (BLISS 1) originated with the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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