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

Autor(en)
Pavel Kroupa, Christian Theis, Christian M. Boily
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Université de Strasbourg
Journal
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Band
431
Seiten
517-521
Anzahl der Seiten
5
ISSN
0004-6361
Publikationsdatum
2005
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103003 Astronomie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/e5c499d5-6aa8-43e1-bf17-30ab3984e816