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  • A kinematic study of the Andromeda dwarf spheroidal system 

    Collins, Michelle L. M., Scott C. Chapman, R. Michael Rich, Rodrigo A. Ibata, et al. 2013. "A kinematic study of the Andromeda dwarf spheroidal system."Astrophysical Journal 768(2):36.
    We present a homogeneous kinematic analysis of red giant branch stars within 18 of the 28 Andromeda dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies, obtained using the Keck I LRIS and Keck II DEIMOS spectrographs. Based on their g-i ...
  • The masses of Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies: The death of the universal mass profile 

    Collins, Michelle L. M., Scott C. Chapman, R. M. Rich, Rodrigo A. Ibata, et al. 2013. "The masses of Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies: The death of the universal mass profile." The Astrophysical Journal 783(1):7.
    We investigate the claim that all dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) reside within halos that share a common, universal mass profile as has been derived for dSphs of the Galaxy. By folding in kinematic information for 25 ...