%0 Journal Article
%T A Survey for Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies Around M31
%A Taft E. Armandroff
%A James E. Davies
%A George H. Jacoby
%J Physics
%D 1998
%I arXiv
%X By applying a digital filtering technique to 1550 square degrees 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 I- band images of And V indicate a distance similar to that of M31, and <[Fe/H]> approximately -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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810299v1