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Table 3

Total mass estimates for the Milky Way and M31 (in 1012M).

M(MW) M(M31) M(MW+M31) M(M31)/M(MW) Reference

0.75 ± 0.25 ... ... ... (1)
... ... 3.2 ± 0.6 ... (2)
... 1.35 ± 0.20 ... ... (3)
0.80 ± 0.50 1.70 ± 0.30 2.5 ± 0.6 2.3 (4)
0.7 ± 0.4 ... ... ... (5)
1.6 ± 0.4 1.8 ± 0.5 3.4 ± 0.6 1.1 (6)
1.35 ± 0.47 1.76 ± 0.33 3.1 ± 0.6 1.3 (7)
1.2 ± 0.4 0.9 ± 0.3 2.1 ± 0.5 0.75 (8)
0.70 ± 0.51 1.39 ± 0.26 2.1 ± 0.6 2.0 (9)
... ... 2.6 ± 0.4 ... (10)
1.30 ± 0.30 ... ... ... (11)
1.02 ± 0.76 ... ... ... (12)
1.55 ± 0.35 ... ... ... (13)
2.84 1.65 4.5 0.58 (14)
1.18 ± 0.18 1.69 ± 0.25 2.9 ± 0.3 1.4 (15)

1.2 1.7 2.9 1.3 median

Reference. (1) Deason et al. (2012); (2) van der Marel et al. (2012); (3) Veljanoski et al. (2013); (4) Diaz et al. (2014); (5) Bhattacharjee et al. (2014); (6) Shull (2014); (7) Karachentsev & Kudrya (2014); (8) Penarrubia et al. (2014); (9) Sofue (2015); (10) Penarrubia et al. (2016); (11) McMillan (2017); (12) Patel et al. (2017); (13) Fragione & Loeb (2017); (14) Peebles (2017); (15) present paper.

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