* Astronomy

Title: Discovery of New Dwarf Galaxy near The Isolated Spiral Galaxy NGC 6503
Author: Jin Koda, Masafumi Yagi, Yutaka Komiyama, Samuel Boissier, Alessandro Boselli, Alexandre Y. K. Bouquin, Jennifer Donovan Meyer, Armando Gil de Paz, Masatoshi Imanishi, Barry F. Madore, David A. Thilker

We report the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy (NGC6503-d1) during the Subaru extended ultraviolet (XUV) disk survey. It is a likely companion of the spiral galaxy NGC6503. The resolved images, in B, V, R, i, and Halpha, show an irregular appearance due to bright stars with underlying, smooth and unresolved stellar emission. It is classified as the transition type (dIrr/dSph). Its structural properties are similar to those of the dwarfs in the Local Group, with a V absolute magnitude ~ -10.5, half-light radius ~400 pc, and central surface brightness ~25.2. Despite the low stellar surface brightness environment, one HII region was detected, though its Halpha luminosity is low, indicating an absence of any appreciable O-stars at the current epoch. The presence of multiple stellar populations is indicated by the color-magnitude diagram of ~300 bright resolved stars and the total colors of the dwarf, with the majority of its total stellar mass ~4x10^6 Msun in an old stellar population.

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