How common is the Milky Way-satellite system alignment

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 399, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 550-558

  Libeskind, Noam I ^a,b   Frenk, Carlos S ^c   Cole, Shaun ^c   Jenkins, Adrian ^c   Helly, John C ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: haloes; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Large scale structure of Universe; Local Group

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COSMOLOGY; ORBITS; SATELLITES;

COSMOLOGY: THEORY; GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; GALAXY:HALO; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; LOCAL GROUPS; MILKY WAYS; PLANAR ALIGNMENT; PROPER MOTION; SATELLITE SYSTEM; SYSTEMS ALIGNMENTS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 70349858133     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15315.x     Document Type: Article

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