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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…