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A Probable New Globular Cluster in the Galactic Disk
We report the discovery of a probable new globular cluster in the disk of the
Milky Way. Visible in 2MASS and the GLIMPSE survey, it has an estimated
foreground extinction of A_V ~ 24 mag. The absolute magnitude of the cluster
and the luminosity function of the red giant branch are most consistent with
that of an old globular cluster with a mass of a few times 10^5 solar masses at
a distance of 4-8 kpc.Comment: 13 pages, submitted to AJ on 10 July 200
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