Boötes II: A retrospective

Shane Walsh; Helmut Jerjen; Beth Willman

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6933-8_41

Boötes II: A retrospective

Shane Walsh^*, Helmut Jerjen, Beth Willman

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During the course of a systematic search for low surface brightness Milky Way satellite galaxies we have discovered a previously unidentified stellar overdensity in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This overdensity has all the hallmarks of an extremely faint Dwarf Spheroidal companion which we designate boo. The object is consistent with an old (∼12 Gyr) metal-poor ([Fe/H] ≃-2.0) population at a distance modulus (m-M)=18.9±0.5 mag. We estimate a total magnitude for boo of M_V∼ -3.1±1.1 mag and a half-light radius of r_h∼72±28 pc.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
Editors	Helmut Jerjen, Barbel Silvia Koribalski
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	191-194
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781402069338
ISBN (Print)	9780387727677, 9780387876207, 9781402055720, 9781402069321, 9781402069321, 9781402088674, 9781402091896, 9781441981608, 9781441983688, 9783540758259, 9783642033230, 9783642103216, 9783642103513, 9783642113406, 9783642172502, 9789048133994, 9789048134984
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6933-8_41
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	Galaxies in the Local Volume symposium, 2007 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 8 Jul 2007 → 13 Jul 2007

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Name	Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
Volume	0
ISSN (Print)	1570-6591
ISSN (Electronic)	1570-6605

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Conference	Galaxies in the Local Volume symposium, 2007
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	8/07/07 → 13/07/07

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Walsh, S, Jerjen, H & Willman, B 2008, Boötes II: A retrospective. in H Jerjen & BS Koribalski (eds), Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol. 0, Springer Science and Business Media B.V., pp. 191-194, Galaxies in the Local Volume symposium, 2007, Sydney, Australia, 8/07/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6933-8_41

Boötes II: A retrospective. / Walsh, Shane; Jerjen, Helmut; Willman, Beth.
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. ed. / Helmut Jerjen; Barbel Silvia Koribalski. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2008. p. 191-194 (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings; Vol. 0).

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