Reconstructing the orbits of Milky Way dwarf galaxies: A Large Magellanic Cloud perspective

arXiv:2606.13787 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-06-11 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-11

Updated: 2026-08-31

Comments: 27 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables, 5 appendices, accepted for publication in A&A

Code: https://github.com/ammg-astro/OrbitIntegration

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Milky Way — 5× in this paper
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• N-body simulations — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• European Regional Development Fund — 2× in this paper
• For the Small Magellanic Cloud — 2× in this paper
• MW and the Large Magellanic Cloud — 2× in this paper
• AURA for the European Space Agency — 1× in this paper
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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• The abundance and properties of the lowest luminosity dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way: Insights from Semi-Analytic Models
• A Chemodynamical Census of the Milky Way's Ultra-Faint Compact Satellites. I. A First Population-Level Look at the Internal Kinematics and Metallicities of 19 Extremely-Low-Mass Halo Stellar Systems
• The satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and Andromeda
• Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report

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