The effect of tides on the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Estimates of the mass distribution and dark-matter (DM) content of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are usually derived under the assumption that the effect of the tidal field of the host galaxy is negligible over the radial extent probed by kinematic data sets. We assess the implications of this assumption in the specific case of the Fornax dSph
Battaglia, G. et al.
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2015