Discovery of VVV CL001 - A low-mass globular cluster next to UKS 1 in the direction of the Galactic bulge

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Table 1

Properties of VVV CL001, based on the VVV data, compared to two known extremely low luminosity globular clusters Koposov 1 and 2 (Koposov et al. 2007).

	VVV CL001	Koposov 1	Koposov 2
Position [l,b]	4.99°, 1.84°	260.98°, 70.75°	195.11°, 25.55°
Distance [kpc]	uncertain	≈ 50 kpc	≈ 40 kpc
Radius [arcmin]	≈ 1 pc^*	≈ 3 pc	≈ 3 pc

Notes.

^(*)

Based on a distance of 16 kpc and a selected radius of 15 arcsec.

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