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Proper Motions and Orbits of Distant Local Group Dwarf Galaxies from a Combination of Gaia and Hubble Data

  • Authors: Paul Bennet, Ekta Patel, Sangmo Tony Sohn, Andrés del Pino Molina, Roeland P. van der Marel, Mattia Libralato, Laura L. Watkins, Antonio Aparicio, Gurtina Besla, Carme Gallart, Mark A. Fardal, Matteo Monelli, Elena Sacchi, Erik Tollerud, Daniel R. Weisz

Paul Bennet et al 2024 The Astrophysical Journal 971 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

An illustration of the range of uncertainties in orbital histories for galaxies with small (left), intermediate (middle), and large PM uncertainties (right). Leo I is plotted with respect to the MW, while NGC 6822 and UGC 4879 are plotted with respect to M31. Each panel also includes the virial radius of the MW or M31 in a black or dashed gray line, respectively. The magenta curve is the direct orbital history for each galaxy (i.e., the same as the direct orbits in Figure 5). The gray lines represent 1000 orbits spanning the uncertainty in the 6D phase space coordinates in Table 5. As expected, orbital uncertainties increase as a function of increasing distance.

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