Leo V: A Companion of a Companion of the Milky Way Galaxy?

V. Belokurov, M. G. Walker, N. W. Evans, D. C. Faria, G. Gilmore, M. J. Irwin, S. Koposov, M. Mateo, E. Olszewski, D. Zucker

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We report the discovery of a new Milky Way satellite in the constellation Leo, identified in data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It lies at a distance of ~180 kpc, and is separated by lesssim3° from another recent discovery, Leo IV. We present follow-up imaging from the Isaac Newton Telescope and spectroscopy from the Hectochelle fiber spectrograph at the Multiple Mirror Telescope. Leo V's heliocentric velocity is ~173.3 ± 3.1 km s−1, offset by ~40 km s−1 from that of Leo IV. A simple interpretation of the kinematic data is that both objects may lie on the same stream, although the implied orbit is only modestly eccentric (e ~ 0.2)
Original languageEnglish
JournalAstrophysical Journal Letters
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Publication statusPublished - 22 Sept 2008

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