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On the Sun's distance from the center and the shape of the inner halo in the Galaxy: Gaia EDR3, HST and literature globular clusters
Gedalin, Michael; Jiang, Ing-Guey; Griv, Evgeny
A statistical method is used to derive both the Sun's distance r0 from the Galactic Center (GC) and the 3D geometry of the inner (< 25 kpc) halo. The spatial distribution of the 138 Gaia EDR3 globular clusters (GCs) with distances established on a combination of HST and literature data of Baumgardt and Vasiliev (2021) is explored. An…
A possible large-scale alignment of galaxy spin directions - Analysis of 10 datasets from SDSS, Pan-STARRS, and HST
Shamir, Lior
Multiple observations made by several different telescopes have shown asymmetry between the number of spiral galaxies rotating in opposite directions in different parts of the sky. One of the immediate questions regarding the possible asymmetry of the spin directions is whether the distribution forms a cosmological-scale axis. This paper analyzes …