The Milky Way Is Missing Satellite Galaxies

There’s a big difference between the number of satellites that simulations predict, and the number we’ve actually seen with telescopes, but why?

Hosted by: Reid Reimers

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Sources:

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901240
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907411
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810070
https://kipac.stanford.edu/highlights/dark-matter-subhalo-disruption-insights-simulations-and-machine-learning
https://astrobites.org/2017/11/22/no-missing-satellites
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258259121_A_Baryonic_Solution_to_the_Missing_Satellites_Problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4505
https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05957

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https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11293
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1511a/
https://fire.northwestern.edu/visualizations/
https://www.sdss.org/sdss-telescope/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescope_3_4_render_2013.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Close_up_of_Telescope_in_the_Dome.jpg
http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/animations/Movies_m12i/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10135
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11894
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11388