An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy

© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. The Milky Way is surrounded by dozens of ultrafaint (<105 L☉) dwarf satellite galaxies1-3. They are the remnants of the earliest galaxies4, as confirmed by their ancient5 and chemically primitive6,7 stars. Simulations8-10...

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Main Authors: Chiti, Anirudh (Author), Frebel, Anna (Author), Simon, Joshua D. (Author), Erkal, Denis (Author), Chang, Laura J. (Author), Necib, Lina (Author), Ji, Alexander P. (Author), Jerjen, Helmut (Author), Kim, Dongwon (Author), Norris, John E. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-04-11T14:29:38Z.
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