Tilted Dark Halos Are Common and Long-lived, and Can Warp Galactic Disks

In the Lambda cold dark matter paradigm, the dark halo governs the gravitational potential within which a galaxy can form and evolve. In this Letter we show that the present-day inner ( r < 50 kpc) dark halo can be significantly misaligned with the stellar disk. To this end, we use the TNG50 run...

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Main Authors: Jiwon Jesse Han, Vadim Semenov, Charlie Conroy, Lars Hernquist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad0641