Discovery of two neighbouring satellites in the Carina constellation with MagLiteS
Discovery of two neighbouring satellites in the Carina constellation with MagLiteS
We report the discovery of two ultra-faint satellites in the vicinity of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in data from the Magellanic Satellites Survey (MagLiteS). Situated 18$^{\circ}$ ($\sim 20$ kpc) from the LMC and separated from each other by only $18^\prime$, Carina~II and III form an intriguing pair. By simultaneously …