@article{bc2313c3128e4859b6913631b40ecebb,
title = "A faint new milky way satellite in bootes",
abstract = "We announce the discovery of a new satellite of the Milky Way in the constellation of Bootes at a distance of ∼60 kpc. It was found in a systematic search for stellar overdensities in the north Galactic cap using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5. The color-magnitude diagram shows a well-defined turnoff, red giant branch, and extended horizontal branch. Its absolute magnitude is Mv∼ -5.8 mag, which makes it one of the faintest galaxies known. The half-light radius is ∼220 pc. The isodensity contours are elongated and have an irregular shape, suggesting that Boo may be a disrupted dwarf spheroidal galaxy.",
keywords = "Galaxies: dwarf, Galaxies: individual (Bootes), Local Group",
author = "V. Belokurov and Zucker, \{D. B.\} and Evans, \{N. W.\} and Wilkinson, \{M. I.\} and Irwin, \{M. J.\} and S. Hodgkin and Bramich, \{D. M.\} and Irwin, \{J. M.\} and G. Gilmore and B. Willman and S. Vidrih and Newberg, \{H. J.\} and Wyse, \{R. F.G.\} and M. Fellhauer and Hewett, \{P. C.\} and N. Cole and Bell, \{E. F.\} and Beers, \{T. C.\} and Rockosi, \{C. M.\} and B. Yanny and Grebel, \{E. K.\} and Schneider, \{D. P.\} and R. Lupton and Barentine, \{J. C.\} and H. Brewington and J. Brinkmann and M. Harvanek and Kleinman, \{S. J.\} and J. Krzesinski and D. Long and A. Nitta and Smith, \{J. A.\} and Snedden, \{S. A.\}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank James Clem for providing the data on M92 used in the paper. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, Cambridge University, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.",
year = "2006",
month = aug,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1086/507324",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "647",
pages = "L111--L114",
journal = "Astrophysical Journal",
issn = "0004-637X",
publisher = "American Astronomical Society",
number = "2 II",
}