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  • Belokurov, V; Zucker, D. B; Evans, N. W; Kleyna, J. T; Koposov, S; Hodgkin, S. T; Irwin, M. J; Gilmore, G; Wilkinson, M. I; Fellhauer, M; Bramich, D. M; Hewett, P. C; Vidrih, S; De Jong, J. T. A; Smith, J. A; Rix, H. -W; Bell, E. F; Wyse, R. F. G; Newberg, H. J; Mayeur, P. A; Yanny, B; Rockosi, C. M; Gnedin, O. Y; Schneider, D. P; Beers, T. C; Barentine, J. C; Brewington, H; Brinkmann, J; Harvanek, M; Kleinman, S. J; Krzesinski, J; Long, D; Nitta, A; Snedden, S. A

    08/2006
    Journal Article

    Astrophys.J.654:897-906,2007 We present five new satellites of the Milky Way discovered in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data, four of which were followed-up with either the Subaru or the Isaac Newton Telescopes. They include four probable new dwarf galaxies -- one each in the constellations of Coma Berenices, Canes Venatici, Leo and Hercules -- together with one unusually extended globular cluster, Segue 1. We provide distances, absolute magnitudes, half-light radii and color-magnitude diagrams for all five satellites. The morphological features of the color-magnitude diagrams are generally well described by the ridge line of the old, metal-poor globular cluster M92. In the last two years, a total of ten new Milky Way satellites with effective surface brightness mu_v >~ 28 mag/sq. arcsec have been discovered in SDSS data. They are less luminous, more irregular and appear to be more metal-poor than the previously-known nine Milky Way dwarf spheroidals. The relationship between these objects and other populations is discussed. We note that there is a paucity of objects with half-light radii between ~40 pc and ~ 100 pc. We conjecture that this may represent the division between star clusters and dwarf galaxies.