The remnant of a merger between two dwarf galaxies in Andromeda II

N. C. Amorisco (), N. W. Evans and G. van de Ven
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N. C. Amorisco: Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
N. W. Evans: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
G. van de Ven: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Nature, 2014, vol. 507, issue 7492, 335-337

Abstract: At the lowest galactic mass scales, evidence of a merger between two galaxies is provided by the kinematic detection of a stellar stream — indicative of an accretion event — in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Andromeda II, one of the satellite galaxies of Andromeda.

Date: 2014
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