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most citedHydra II: a faint and compact Milky Way dwarf galaxy found in the Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History

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astro-ph.GA2016

A stellar over-density associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud

A. Pieres, B. X. Santiago, A. Drlica-Wagner +64

We report the discovery of a stellar over-density 8 north of the center of the Small Magellanic Cloud (Small Magellanic Cloud Northern Over-Density; SMCNOD) using data fr…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 33 cited

SMASH 1: a very faint globular cluster disrupting in the outer reaches of the LMC?

Nicolas F. Martin, Valentin Jungbluth, David L. Nidever +20

We present the discovery of a very faint stellar system, SMASH 1, that is potentially a satellite of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Found within the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar H…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 101 cited

An Ultra-Faint Galaxy Candidate Discovered in Early Data from the Magellanic Satellites Survey

A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol, S. Allam +21

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…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 51 cited

Portrait of a Dark Horse: a Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellite Pegasus III

Dongwon Kim, Helmut Jerjen, Marla Geha +6

Pegasus III (Peg III) is one of the few known ultra-faint stellar systems in the outer halo of the Milky Way. We present the results from a follow-up campaign with Magellan/IMACS a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

Mapping the Monoceros Ring in 3D with Pan-STARRS1

Eric Morganson, Blair Conn, Hans-Walter Rix +16

Using the Pan-STARRS1 survey, we derive limiting magnitude, spatial completeness and density maps that we use to probe the three dimensional structure and estimate the stellar mass…