Within the Local Universe galaxies can be studied in great detail star by star, and here we
review the results of quantitative studies in nearby dwarf galaxies. The color-magnitude …

Aims. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the outstanding quality of the second data
release of the Gaia mission and its power for constraining many different aspects of the …

Context. The assembly history experienced by the Milky Way is currently being unveiled
thanks to the data provided by the Gaia mission. It is likely that the globular cluster system of …

We review our current understanding of the internal dynamical properties of the dwarf
spheroidal galaxies surrounding the Milky Way. These are the most dark matter dominated …

A proper understanding of the Milky Way (MW) dwarf galaxies in a cosmological context
requires knowledge of their 3D velocities and orbits. However, proper motion (PM) …

Aims. We perform a comprehensive determination of the systemic proper motions of 74
dwarf galaxies and dwarf galaxy candidates in the Local Group based on Gaia early data …

Gravitational potential fluctuations driven by bursty star formation can kinematically 'heat
up'dark matter at the centres of dwarf galaxies. A key prediction of such models is that, at a …

We introduce a method for measuring the slopes of mass profiles within dwarf spheroidal
(dSph) galaxies directly from stellar spectroscopic data and without adopting a dark matter …

We present proper motions for the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC)
based on three epochs of Hubble Space Telescope data, spanning a∼ 7 yr baseline, and …

We fit the rotation curves of isolated dwarf galaxies to directly measure the stellar mass–halo
mass relation (M⋆–M 200) over the mass range 5× 105≲ M⋆/M⊙≲ 108. By accounting for …