  We present, using a novel technique, a study of the angular distribution of
satellite galaxies around a sample of isolated, blue host galaxies selected
from the sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. As a complement to
previous studies we subdivide the sample of galaxies into bins of differing
inclination and use the systematic differences that would exist between the
different bins as the basis for our approach. We parameterize the cumulative
distribution function of satellite galaxies and apply a maximum likelihood,
Monte-Carlo technique to determine allowable distributions, which we show as an
exclusion plot. We find that the allowed distributions of the satellites of
spiral hosts are very nearly isotropic. We outline our formalism and our
analysis and discuss how this technique may be refined for future studies and
future surveys.

Astrophysics