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Astronomer, CNRS researcher at Strasbourg Observatory and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (Heidelberg), Local Group dweller
Apr 6, 2018 19 tweets 7 min read
Remember this dwarf galaxy that was presented as lacking dark matter last week (van Dokkum et al. 2018)? #thread
arxiv.org/abs/1803.10237 Since extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, my student @Nico_Longeard and I decided to have a look at the claim of very low velocity dispersion and M/L in NGC1052-DF2 and, how to say…