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Tidal Grinding of Dwarf Galaxies in Cluster Environments

  • Authors: Sanjaya Paudel, Suk-Jin Yoon, Tek Prasad Adhikari, Eun-Taek Gim, Myung-Hun Kim, Inhyuk Park, Nau Raj Pokhrel

Sanjaya Paudel et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

Left: distribution of line-of-sight velocities of dEs relative to M87. The vertical dashed lines indicate the velocity thresholds used to define the slow- and fast-moving subsamples. Right: projected axis-ratio distributions of slow and fast dEs, defined as galaxies with relative line-of-sight velocities below 475 km s−1 and above 555 km s−1, respectively. The corresponding KS-test p-value is indicated in the legend. Fast-moving dEs exhibit a larger fraction of flattened systems, whereas slow-moving dEs are preferentially round, consistent with a morphology–kinematics relation within the Virgo Cluster.

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