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

Pavel Kroupa; Christian Theis; Christian M. Boily

doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20041122

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

Astrophysics 2010-03-01 v1

Authors: Pavel Kroupa , Christian Theis , Christian M. Boily

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

Milky Way satellites cosmological substructure dark matter stellar distribution anisotropy

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0410421,
  title  = {The great disk of Milky-Way satellites and cosmological sub-structures},
  author = {Pavel Kroupa and Christian Theis and Christian M. Boily},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0410421},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

accepted by A&A, 5 pages

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