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Observational Evidence for the Kinematic Memory of Cosmic Filaments from Satellite Orbital Orientations
Peng Wang, Wei Wang, Wenting Wang +5
We present an observational study of the kinematic coherence between satellite orbital planes and the cosmic web. Using the SDSS DR12 galaxy sample combined with the Bisous filamen…
astro-ph.GA2021
The lopsided distribution of satellites of isolated central galaxies
Peng Wang, Noam I. Libeskind, Marcel S. Pawlowski +4
Satellites are not randomly distributed around their central galaxies but show polar and planar structures. In this paper, we investigate the axis-asymmetry or lopsidedness of sate…