Orientations of Dark Matter Halos in FIRE-2 Milky Way–mass Galaxies

The shape and orientation of dark matter (DM) halos are sensitive to the microphysics of the DM particles, yet in many mass models, the symmetry axes of the Milky Way’s DM halo are often assumed to be aligned with the symmetry axes of the stellar disk. This is well motivated for the inner DM halo, b...

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Main Authors: Jay Baptista, Robyn Sanderson, Dan Huber, Andrew Wetzel, Omid Sameie, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Jeremy Bailin, Philip F. Hopkins, Claude-André Faucher-Giguere, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Drona Vargya, Nondh Panithanpaisal, Arpit Arora, Emily Cunningham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acea79