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A New Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy in Ursa Major

A New Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy in Ursa Major

In this Letter, we report the discovery of a new dwarf satellite to the Milky Way, located at (α2000, δ2000) = (15872, 5192) in the constellation of Ursa Major. This object was detected as an overdensity of red, resolved stars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. The color-magnitude diagram of …