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Satellite Galaxies

Satellite Galaxies is a class of galaxies that are gravitationally bound to and orbit within the dark matter halo of a more massive host galaxy, typically being significantly less massive than the host and dynamically influenced by its tidal field.

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The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos

The Astrophysical Journal · 1996 · 8.2K citations · Full text

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Dark Matter Substructure within Galactic Halos

Ben Moore, Sebastiano Ghigna, Fabio Governato et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 3K citations · Full text

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Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites?

Anatoly Klypin, Andrey V. Kravtsov, O. Valenzuela et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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Galactic Bridges and Tails

Alar Toomre, Juri Toomre · The Astrophysical Journal · 1972 · 2.6K citations

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THE OBSERVED PROPERTIES OF DWARF GALAXIES IN AND AROUND THE LOCAL GROUP

The Astronomical Journal · 2012 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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    James S. Bullock

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    51 publications · 11.5K citations

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  2. CS
    Carlos S. Frenk

    Durham University, United Kingdom

    68 publications · 7.8K citations

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  3. FC
    Frank C. van den Bosch

    Yale University, United States

    53 publications · 6.1K citations

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    H. J. Mo

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    40 publications · 4.5K citations

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  5. MB
    Michael Boylan-Kolchin

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    35 publications · 8.7K citations

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    73 h-index

    289 publications

    41.3K citations

  2. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    73 h-index

    442 publications

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  3. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

    Garching, Germany

    71 h-index

    238 publications

    35.8K citations

  4. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    63 h-index

    216 publications

    34.5K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    63 h-index

    421 publications

    39.2K citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    60 h-index

    220 publications

    48.2K citations

  7. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    60 h-index

    165 publications

    22.8K citations

  8. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    56 h-index

    127 publications

    14.6K citations

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  1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    743 publications · 64.6K citations

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  2. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 478 publications · 69.8K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    95 publications · 5.4K citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    49 publications · 3.5K citations

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  5. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 40 publications · 4.7K citations

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