Is There a Disk of Satellites around the Milky Way?

The "disk of satellites" (DoS) around the Milky Way is a highly debated topic with conflicting interpretations of observations and their theoretical models. We perform a comprehensive analysis of all of the dwarfs detected in the Milky Way and find that the DoS structure depends strongly o...

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Main Authors: Maji, Moupiya (Author), Zhu, Qirong (Author), Marinacci, Federico (Contributor), Li, Yuexing (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2017-11-08T18:41:43Z.
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