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The shape-velocity alignment of satellites forged by tidal locking and dynamical friction
Hao Yang, Wenting Wang, Ting S. Li +8
Utilizing the TNG50 simulation, we study two types of alignments for satellites/subhalos: 1) the alignment of their major axes with the galactocentric radial directions (radial ali…
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The dark matter content of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor
Hao Yang, Wenting Wang, Ling Zhu +50
The Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has so far observed three classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs): Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor. Based…
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SpecDis: Value added distance catalogue for 4 million stars from DESI Year-1 data
Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +55
We present the SpecDis value added stellar distance catalog accompanying DESI DR1. SpecDis trains a feed-forward Neural Network (NN) with Gaia parallaxes and gets the distance esti…