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astro-ph.GA2018★ 103 cited
A Lonely Giant: The Sparse Satellite Population of M94 Challenges Galaxy Formation
Adam Smercina, Eric F. Bell, Paul A. Price +5
The dwarf satellites of `giant' Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies are our primary probes of low-mass dark matter halos. The number and velocities of the satellite galaxies of the MW and…
astro-ph.GA2018★ 133 cited
The Andromeda galaxy's most important merger about 2 billion years ago as M32's likely progenitor
Richard D'Souza, Eric F. Bell
Although the proximity of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) offers an opportunity to understand how mergers affect galaxies, uncertainty remains about M31's most important mergers. Previo…
astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited
The Prevalence of Type III Disc Breaks in HI-rich and Low-spin Galaxies
Jing Wang, Zheng Zheng, Richard D'Souza +9
We investigate the origin of the type III (up-bending) discs based on a sample of 1808 galaxies from SDSS and a sub-sample of 286 galaxies with HI data from ALFALFA. We examine how…