SMASH 1: a very faint globular cluster disrupting in the outer reaches of the LMC?

Autor: Carme Gallart, Eric F. Bell, Alistair R. Walker, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, David Martinez-Delgado, Nicolas F. Martin, Ricardo R. Mñoz, Catherine C. Kaleida, Valentin Jungbluth, Edward W. Olszewski, Steven R. Majewski, A. Katherina Vivas, Noelia E. D. Noël, Knut Olsen, Guy S. Stringfellow, Roeland P. van der Marel, Shoko Jin, David L. Nidever, Gurtina Besla, Dennis Zaritsky, Blair C. Conn, Robert Blum, Antonela Monachesi

Publikováno v: The Astrophysical journal letters
The Astrophysical journal letters, Bristol : IOP Publishing, 2016, 830 (1), pp.L10. ⟨10.3847/2041-8205/830/1/L10⟩

We present the discovery of a very faint stellar system, SMASH 1, that is potentially a satellite of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Found within the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH), SMASH 1 is a compact ($r_h = 9.1^{+5.9}_{-3.4}$ pc) an

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