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2018年1月1日

Searches for new Milky Way satellites from the first two years of data of the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam survey: Discovery of Cetus III

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Daisuke Homma
  • Masashi Chiba
  • Sakurako Okamoto
  • Yutaka Komiyama
  • Masayuki Tanaka
  • Mikito Tanaka
  • Miho N. Ishigaki
  • Kohei Hayashi
  • Nobuo Arimoto
  • José A. Garmilla
  • Robert H. Lupton
  • Michael A. Strauss
  • Satoshi Miyazaki
  • Shiang-Yu Wang
  • Hitoshi Murayama
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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
DOI
10.1093/pasj/psx050
出版者・発行元
Oxford University Press

We present the results from a search for new Milky Way (MW) satellites from the first two years of data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program (SSP) ∼300 deg2 and report the discovery of a highly compelling ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidate in Cetus. This is the second ultra-faint dwarf we have discovered after Virgo I reported in our previous paper. This satellite, Cetus III, has been identified as a statistically significant (10.7 σ) spatial overdensity of star-like objects, which are selected from a relevant isochrone filter designed for a metal-poor and old stellar population. This stellar system is located at a heliocentric distance of 251-11+24 kpc with a most likely absolute magnitude of MV = -2.4 ± 0.6mag estimated from a Monte Carlo analysis. Cetus III is extended with a half-light radius of rh = 90-17+42 pc, suggesting that this is a faint dwarf satellite in the MW located beyond the detection limit of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Further spectroscopic studies are needed to assess the nature of this stellar system. We also revisit and update the parameters for Virgo I, finding MV = -0.33-0.87+0.75 mag and rh = 47-13+19 pc. Using simulations of Σ-dominated cold dark matter models, we predict that we should find one or two new MW satellites from ∼300 deg2 HSC-SSP data, in rough agreement with the discovery rate so far. The further survey and completion of HSC-SSP over ∼1400 deg2 will provide robust insights into the missing satellites problem.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psx050
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1704.05977
URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05977v2
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1093/pasj/psx050
  • ISSN : 2053-051X
  • ISSN : 0004-6264
  • arXiv ID : arXiv:1704.05977
  • SCOPUS ID : 85041647168

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