Our Strange Neighbors: Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way

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Oct 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009xmm..prop....6e&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #06501802

Computer Science

Galaxies, Galactic Surveys, Segue 1 Dsph, Ursa Major Ii D

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A study by Strigari et al (Nature 454, 1096 (2008)) shows the puzzling discovery that the integrated mass of the Milky Way dwarf satellites are consistent with them having a common mass of about 10^7 M_sun, suggesting that they could be the primordial building blocks in galaxy formation, introducing a new scale in galaxy formation and for the clustering of dark matter. We ask to complete XMM-Newton observations of the full sample of known dSphs in order to draw conclusions about their formation and source content deducible from their X-ray emission. The proposed programme represents an XMM-Newton legacy for the search for dark matter signatures.

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