The Great disk of Milky Way satellites and cosmological sub-structures

Oct, 2004
5 pages
Published in:
  • Astron.Astrophys. 431 (2005) 517-521
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We show that the shape of the observed distribution of Milky Way (MW) satellites is inconsistent with being drawn from a cosmological sub-structure population with a confidence of 99.5 per cent. Most of the MW satellites therefore cannot be related to dark-matter dominated satellites.
  • COSMOLOGY
  • GALAXY EVOLUTION
  • GALAXY HALO
  • DWARF GALAXIES
  • GALAXIES KINEMATICS
  • GALAXIES DYNAMICS
  • LOCAL GROUP