Tidal Dwarf Galaxies Bonn 2009: Ghosts from structure formation

Physics Centre Bad Honnef (Germany), May 25-29, 2009

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Talk

Title: The Local Group satellite galaxies: are they ancient tidal dwarfs?

Date: Friday 29th May

Time: 12:45 - 13:15

Presentation file: talk_Kroupa.pdf

Abstract:

The satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, and to a less-significant amount, those of Andromeda, are distributed anisotropically about their hosts. The MW system appears to be a disk-like feature which is rotating. These features of the satellite galaxy distribution indicate that many of the satellites may be ancient tidal-dwarf galaxies. If true this would have possibly major implications for fundamental physics.

Additional Material

• Welcome Talk
• Final Discussion
• Photos from the conference

photos by Julia T. Scho (ForeignLight.com) / Marcel S. Pawlowski