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Young stars discovered in dwarf spheroidal galaxies confirm their recent infall into the Milky way
Francois Hammer, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau +10
Recent observations from the ESA Gaia satellite and with the ESO VLT, have identified the presence of a population of young, 0.5 to 2 Gyr old, stars in the halo and in dwarf sphero…
Impact of merger histories on the timing argument estimate of the Local Group mass
Istiak Akib, François Hammer, Yanbin Yang
The timing argument (TA) aims to find the total mass of the Local Group (LG) from the relative motions of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda Galaxy (M31). However, the classical TA a…
An intriguing coincidence between the majority of vast polar structure dwarfs and a recent major merger at the M31 position
Istiak Akib, François Hammer, Yanbin Yang +2
A significant part of the Milky Way (MW) dwarf galaxies orbit within a Vast POlar Structure (VPOS), which is perpendicular to the Galactic disc and whose origin has not yet been id…