We analyze the angular distribution and the orbital rotation directions of a sample of carefully selected satellite galaxies about disk galaxy primaries extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We complement this analysis with a theoretical study of these statistics in an N-body simulation of cosmological structure formation set within the {Delta}CDM paradigm under various assumptions for the orientations of disk angular momenta.
Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/645/228/table3 (The Primaries and Satellites of the sample)