Extended Data Fig. 6: Radial distributions, Gini coefficients, and anisotropy of complete and incomplete samples of subhaloes. | Nature Astronomy

Extended Data Fig. 6: Radial distributions, Gini coefficients, and anisotropy of complete and incomplete samples of subhaloes.

From: The Milky Way’s plane of satellites is consistent with ΛCDM

Extended Data Fig. 6

Relation between Gini coefficient of inertia, G, and anisotropy, c/a, for the complete set of satellites (top, same as Fig. 2), and using only the subhaloes from the incomplete sample (bottom). While the radial distributions of the complete samples bracket the Milky Way data (left panel), those of the incomplete subhalo samples are much less centrally concentrated, resulting in much lower Gini coefficients. The complete sample contains multiple systems with G as high or higher, and c/a as low or lower than the MW, while in the incomplete sample, only two systems are as anisotropic, and none is as centrally concentrated as the MW.

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