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most citedBeasts of the Southern Wild: Discovery of nine Ultra Faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds

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16 papers

astro-ph.GA2019★ 61 cited

Boötes IV: A New Milky Way Satellite Discovered in the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey and Implications for the Missing Satellite Problem

Daisuke Homma, Masashi Chiba, Yutaka Komiyama +13

We report on the discovery of a new Milky Way (MW) satellite in Boötes based on data from the on-going Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program (SSP). This satellite, named…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 199 cited

The hidden giant: discovery of an enormous Galactic dwarf satellite in Gaia DR2

G. Torrealba, V. Belokurov, S. E. Koposov +8

We report the discovery of a Milky Way satellite in the constellation of Antlia. The Antlia 2 dwarf galaxy is located behind the Galactic disc at a latitude of a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 44 cited

Nine tiny star clusters in Gaia DR1, PS1 and DES

G. Torrealba, V. Belokurov, S. E. Koposov

We present the results of a systematic Milky Way satellite search performed across an array of publicly available wide-area photometric surveys. Our aim is to complement previous s…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 63 cited

Ships Passing in the Night: Spectroscopic Analysis of Two Ultra-Faint Satellites in the Constellation Carina

T. S. Li, J. D. Simon, A. B. Pace +21

We present Magellan/IMACS, Anglo-Australian Telescope/AAOmega+2dF, and Very Large Telescope/GIRAFFE+FLAMES spectroscopy of the CarinaII (Car II) & Carina III (Car III) dwarf galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

Discovery of a thin stellar stream in the SLAMS survey

P. Jethwa, G. Torrealba, C. Navarrete +8

We report the discovery of a thin stellar stream - which we name the Jet stream - crossing the constellations of Hydra and Pyxis. The discovery was made in data from the SLAMS surv…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 129 cited

Crater 2: An Extremely Cold Dark Matter Halo

Nelson Caldwell, Matthew G. Walker, Mario Mateo +6

We present results from MMT/Hectochelle spectroscopy of red giant candidate stars along the line of sight to the recently-discovered Galactic satellite Crater 2. Modelling the join…