O ct 1 99 8 A Survey for Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies
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By applying a digital filtering technique to 1550 deg of the POSS-II in the vicinity of M31, we found two previously unidentified very low surface brightness dwarf galaxies which we designate And V and VI. Follow-up imaging with the KPNO 4-m telescope resolved these into stars easily. The V and Iband images of And V indicate a distance similar to that of M31, and <[Fe/H]> ∼ –1.5. All evidence strongly supports its classification as a dwarf spheroidal companion to M31. Data for And VI are being analyzed, but preliminary indications support a similar conclusion. Our search for more dwarfs, including follow-up observations of numerous candidates found via digital filtering, is incomplete; thus, further identifications may be forthcoming.
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