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A NEW FAINT MILKY WAY SATELLITE DISCOVERED IN THE PAN-STARRS1 3 <i>π</i> SURVEY

A NEW FAINT MILKY WAY SATELLITE DISCOVERED IN THE PAN-STARRS1 3 <i>π</i> SURVEY

We present the discovery of a faint Milky Way satellite, Laevens 2/Triangulum II, found in the Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS 1) 3 pi imaging data and confirmed with follow-up wide-field photometry from the Large Binocular Cameras. The stellar system, with an absolute magnitude of M_V=-1.8 +/-0.5, …