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

Pavel Kroupa, Christian Theis, Christian M. Boily

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0410421

Abstract

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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