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most citedAn Observational Limit on the Dwarf Galaxy Population of the Local Group

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An Observational Limit on the Dwarf Galaxy Population of the Local Group

Alan B. Whiting, George K. T. Hau, Mike Irwin +1

We present the results of an all-sky, deep optical survey for faint Local Group dwarf galaxies. Candidate objects were selected from the second Palomar survey (POSS-II) and ESO/SRC…

astro-ph2006

Sir James Jeans and the Stability of Gaseous Stars

Alan B. Whiting

In 1925 Sir James Jeans calculated that a star made up of an ideal gas, generating energy as a moderately positive function of temperature and density, could not exist. Such stars…

astro-ph2005

You Can't Get There From Here: Hubble Relaxation in the Local Volume

Alan B. Whiting

A beginning end-point for galaxy motions within the 10-Mpc Local Volume is constructed by requiring a smooth distribution of (luminous) mass at the time of recombination, which is…

astro-ph2004

Light and Motion in the Local Volume

Alan B. Whiting

Using high-quality data on 149 galaxies within 10 megaparsecs (Mpc), I find no correlation between luminosity and peculiar velocity at all. There is no unequivocal sign on scales o…

astro-ph200410 cited

The Expansion of Space: Free Particle Motion and the Cosmological Redshift

Alan B. Whiting

The meaning of the expansion of the universe, or the `expansion of space,' is explored using two phenomena: the motion of a test particle against a homogeneous background and the c…

astro-ph2002

The Kinematic State of the Local Volume

Alan B. Whiting

The kinematics of galaxies with 10 megaparsecs (10 Mpc) of the Milky Way is investigated using published distances and radial velocities. With respect to the average Hubble flow (i…