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The Least Luminous Galaxy: Spectroscopy of the Milky Way Satellite Segue 1
Marla Geha, Beth Willman, Josh D. Simon +4
We present Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy of Segue 1, an ultra-low luminosity (M_V = -1.5) Milky Way satellite companion. While the combined size and luminosity of Segue 1 are consistent…
A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat +4
The Milky Way has at least twenty-three known satellite galaxies that shine with luminosities ranging from about a thousand to a billion times that of the Sun. Half of these galaxi…
Hundreds of Milky Way Satellites? Luminosity Bias in the Satellite Luminosity Function
Erik J. Tollerud, James S. Bullock, Louis E. Strigari +1
We correct the observed Milky Way satellite luminosity function for luminosity bias using published completeness limits for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR5. Assuming that the spat…
LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310
(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a sin…
The Formation of Polar Disk Galaxies
Chris B. Brook, Fabio Governato, Thomas Quinn +5
Polar Ring Galaxies, such as NGC4650A, are a class of galaxy which have two kinematically distinct components that are inclined by almost 90 degrees to each other. These striking g…
On the Origin of Dynamically Cold Rings Around the Milky Way
Joshua D. Younger, Gurtina Besla, T. J. Cox +3
We present a scenario for the production of dynamically cold rings around the Milky Way via a high-eccentricity, flyby encounter. These initial conditions are more cosmologically m…