Detection of satellite remnants in the Galactic Halo with Gaia - I. The effect of the Galactic background, observational errors and sampling

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 359, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1287-1305

  Brown, Anthony G A ^a   Velázquez, Hector M ^b   Aguilar, Luis A ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Galaxies: interactions; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: structure; Methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GALAXIES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORBITS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITES; STARS; SURVEYS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DWARF GALAXIES; GALACTIC HALO; GALAXIES: INTERACTIONS; GALAXIES:STRUCTURE; GALAXY FORMATIONS; GALAXY MODELS; METHOD: NUMERICAL; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; TIDAL STREAMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 19844383408     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09013.x     Document Type: Article

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