Pavel Kroupa: Satellite Galaxies

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Dark matter, cosmology and progress



The Disk of Satellites of the Milky Way

The disk of Satellites including all ŧcurrently (July 2010) known satellites. See Fig.4 in Kroupa et al. (2010, A & A). Here, the upper panel shows the fitted edge-on DoS with dashed lines indicating 1xDelta_min (rather than 1.5xDelta_min in Fig.4).


Visualisation

For a visualisation of the three-dimensional distribution of the satellite galaxies about the Milky Way (and Andromeda) click on ViSaGE

Note: if choosing to display a disk, its radius is 200kpc.

ViSaGE is a product developed in 2009 by Manuel Hahn in terms of a Bachelor Thesis at the University of Bonn.



Helmut Jerjen: The Stromlo Milky Way Satellite Survey

The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo.






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