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

Christian M. Boily (University of Strasbourg); Christian Theis (University of Vienna); Pavel Kroupa (University of Bonn)

arxiv: astro-ph/0410421 · v1 · submitted 2004-10-18 · 🌌 astro-ph

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

Pavel Kroupa (University of Bonn) , Christian Theis (University of Vienna) , Christian M. Boily (University of Strasbourg) This is my paper

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We show that the shape of the observed distribution of Milky Way (MW) satellites is inconsistent with 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.

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