Accretion History of the Milky Way Dark Matter Halo and the Origin of its Angular Momentum [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5790


The flow of dark matter into the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud in a model for the gravitational field of the neighboring galaxies yields a growth history for the dark matter halo of the Milky Way that ends up with angular momentum roughly in the observed direction, and it produces a dark matter stream around the Large Magellanic Cloud that resembles the Magellanic Stream.

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P. Peebles
Tue, 26 Aug 14
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Comments: 20 pages, 9 figures