Dwarf galaxy planes: The discovery of symmetric structures in the local group

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Pawlowski, M. S.
Kroupa, Pavel
Jerjen, Helmut

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Both major galaxies in the Local Group (LG) are surrounded by thin planes of mostly coorbiting satellite galaxies, the vast polar structure (VPOS) around the Milky Way (MW) and the Great Plane of Andromeda (GPoA) around M31. We summarize the current knowl

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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