Constraining a Thin Dark Matter Disk with Gaia

If a component of the dark matter has dissipative interactions, it could collapse to form a thin dark disk in our Galaxy that is coplanar with the baryonic disk. It has been suggested that dark disks could explain a variety of observed phenomena, including periodic comet impacts. Using the first dat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schutz, Katelin, Lin, Tongyan, Safdi, Benjamin R., Wu, Chih-Liang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117666