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Table 1

Properties of the Sgr dSph remnant in terms of position, velocity, half-light radius along the minor axis rh, central velocity dispersion, and total luminosity.

Parameter Value Source

RA 18h55m19.5s 1
Dec − 30°32′43.0” 1
Distance 28.5 kpc 2
μ α –2.45 mas yr-1 2
μ δ –1.30 mas yr-1 2
V rad + 140 ± 2.0 km s-1 3
r h 0.6 kpc 3
σ c 11.4 km s-1 3
L V 2.4 × 107 L 4

Notes.The sources are: 1.Ibata et al. (1994), 2.Law & Majewski (2010), 3.Ibata et al. (1997), 4.Majewski et al. (2003). The value of the distance and luminosity of the galaxy differs from the value of LM10 since we chose a Sun-GC distance of 8.5 kpc.

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