Issue EAS Publications Series Volume 20, 2006 Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures Page(s) 105 - 112 DOI 10.1051/eas:2006055 Published online 19 May 2006

Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures
G.A. Mamon, F. Combes, C. Deffayet and B. Fort (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 20 (2006) 105-112
DOI: 10.1051/eas:2006055

The internal kinematics of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

M.I. Wilkinson¹, J.T. Kleyna², N. Wyn Evans¹, G.F. Gilmore¹, J.I. Read¹, A. Koch³, E.K. Grebel³ and M.J. Irwin<sup>1

1</sup>  Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
²  Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-1897, USA
³  Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel, Venusstrasse 7, 4102 Binningen, Switzerland

Abstract
The status of kinematic observations in Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) is reviewed. Various approaches to the dynamical modelling of these data are discussed and some general features of dSph dark matter haloes based on simple mass models are presented.

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