We present images and a color–magnitude diagram for And V , a new dwarf spheroidal companion to M31 that was found using a digital filtering technique applied to 1550 deg ^ { 2 } of the second Palomar Sky Survey .
And V resolves into stars easily in follow-up 4-m V - and I -band images , from which we deduce a distance of 810 \pm 45 kpc using the tip of the red giant branch method .
Within the uncertainties , this distance is identical to the Population II distances for M31 and , combined with a projected separation of 112 kpc , provides strong support for a physical association between the two galaxies .
There is no emission from And V detected in H \alpha , 1.4 GHz radio continuum , or IRAS bandpasses , and there is no young population seen in the color–magnitude diagram that might suggest that And V is an irregular .
Thus , the classification as a new dwarf spheroidal member of the Local Group seems secure .
With an extinction-corrected central surface brightness of 25.2 V mag/arcsec ^ { 2 } , a mean metal abundance of [ Fe/H ] \approx –1.5 , and no evidence for upper AGB stars , And V resembles And I & III .