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

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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 431, Issue 2, Pages 517-521

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EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041122

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Galaxy : evolution; Galaxy : halo; galaxies : dwarf; galaxies : kinematics and dynamics; galaxies : Local Group; Galaxy : formation

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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.

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