Clean kinematic samples in dwarf spheroidals: An algorithm for evaluting membership and estimating distribution parameters when contamination is present

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 3109-3138

  Walker, Matthew G ^a,b   Mateo, Mario ^b   Olszewski, Edward W ^c   Sen, Bodhisattva ^b   Woodroofe, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Dwarf galaxies: Individual (Carina, Fornax, Sculptor, Sextans) galaxies: Kinematics and dynamics Local Group techniques: Radial velocities

Indexed keywords

EID: 64849117009     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/137/2/3109     Document Type: Article

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