The great disk of Milky-Way satellites and cosmological sub-structures
- Author(s)
- Pavel Kroupa, Christian Theis, Christian M. Boily
- Abstract
We show that the shape of the observed distribution of Milky Way (MW) satellites is inconsistent with their 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.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Université de Strasbourg
- Journal
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Volume
- 431
- Pages
- 517-521
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 0004-6361
- Publication date
- 2005
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/e5c499d5-6aa8-43e1-bf17-30ab3984e816