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astro-ph.GA2025
The long-term stability of the Vast Polar Structure and its connection to a possible previous passage of the LMC
Alberto Manuel Martínez-García, Andrés del Pino
The Vast Polar Structure (VPOS) is a thin, planar arrangement of co-orbiting dwarf galaxies, nearly perpendicular to the Milky Way (MW) disc. In this work we investigate the persis…
astro-ph.GA2019
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Construction of an L* Galaxy: the Transformative Power of Wide Fields for Revealing the Past, Present and Future of the Great Andromeda System
Karoline M. Gilbert, Erik J. Tollerud, Jay Anderson +34
The Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nexus of the near-far galaxy evolution connection and a principal data point for near-field cosmology. Due to its proximity (780 kpc), M31 c…