The discovery of groups of dwarf galaxies in extremely isolated environments provides direct observational evidence of hierarchical assembly at small galactic scales.
References
Diemand, J. et al. Nature 454, 735–738 (2008).
Martínez-Delgado, D. et al. Astrophys. J. 748, L24 (2012).
Annibali, F. et al. Astrophys. J. 826, L27 (2016).
Stierwalt, S. et al. Nat. Astron. 1, 0025 (2017).
Stierwalt, S. et al. Astrophys. J. 805, 2 (2015).
Tully, R. B. et al. Astron. J. 132, 729–748 (2006).
Deason, A. J. et al. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 444, 3975–3985 (2014).
D’ Onghia, E. & Lake, G. Astrophys. J. 686, L61 (2008).
Deason, A. J., Wetzel, A. R., Garrison-Kimmel, S. & Belokurov, V. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 453, 3568–3574 (2015).
Dooley, G. A. et al. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00708 (2016).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Annibali, F. Structure formation: Satellites of satellites in isolation. Nat Astron 1, 0039 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0039
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0039
- Springer Nature Limited