Bibcode
Santos-Santos, I.; Domínguez-Tenreiro, R.; Artal, H.; Serna, A.; Gómez-Flechoso, M. A.; Brook, C.; Tissera, P.; Pedrosa, S.; Bignone, L.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16-20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain, ISBN 978-84-09-09331-1. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schödel, E. Villaver, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Ordóñez-Etxeberria (eds.) p. 173-178
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2019
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Description
Planes of satellites are observed in the Milky Way and Andromeda, and
recent observations claim their presence as well in other nearby
galactic systems. Moreover, recent proper motion data of MW satellites
allege an important fraction of satellites are co-orbiting within the
plane they define. However, the quality and degree of co-orbitation of
the planes of satellites reported so far from simulations within a
ΛCDM context have been insufficient to explain the observational
data. In order to further understand the origin of planes of satellites
we have carried out a detailed study of planes of satellites in zoom-in
cosmological hydro-simulations of disc galaxies, focusing on
plane-finding methods and plane quality analyses. We report on a method
to identify kinematically-coherent satellites based on their orbital
angular momentum vectors. We find a group of co-orbiting satellites in
the PDEVA-5004 simulation that forms a persistent planar structure
across cosmic time, with characteristics compatible with those of the
observed planes in the MW and M31.