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The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Density Profiles
Alex M. Garcia, Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey +23
In this work, we utilize a new suite of Milky Way-mass halos from the DREAMS Project, simulated with Cold Dark Matter (CDM), to quantify the influence of baryon feedback and intrin…
The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Satellite Galaxies
Jonah C. Rose, Mariangela Lisanti, Paul Torrey +24
We analyze the properties of satellite galaxies around 1,024 Milky Way-mass hosts from the DREAMS Project, simulated within a CDM cosmology. Utilizing the TNG galaxy-formation m…
Searching for Exoplanets Born Outside the Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey Design
Robert Aloisi, Andrew Vanderburg, Melinda Soares-Furtado +44
Observations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed outside the Milky Way. We…
How to Build an Empirical Speed Distribution for Dark Matter in the Solar Neighborhood
Tal Shpigel, Dylan Folsom, Mariangela Lisanti +3
The dark matter flux in a direct detection experiment depends on its local speed distribution. This distribution has been inferred from simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies, but…
Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Emission in MHD Galaxy Formation Simulations with Full Cosmic Ray Spectra
Isabel S. Sands, Philip F. Hopkins, Sam B. Ponnada +3
The Milky Way's galactic center is a highly dynamical, crowded environment. Gamma ray observations of this region, such as the excess of GeV scale gamma rays observed by Fermi LAT,…
Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation
Andrew Wetzel, Jenna Samuel, Pratik J. Gandhi +34
We describe the second data release (DR2) of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, available…
OTI on FIRE: Testing the Efficacy of Orbital Torus Imaging to Recover the Galactic Potential
Micah Oeur, Sarah R. Loebman, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +3
Orbital Torus Imaging (OTI) is a dynamical inference method for determining the Milky Way's gravitational potential using stellar survey data. OTI uses gradients in stellar astroph…
Dark Matter Velocity Distributions for Direct Detection: Astrophysical Uncertainties are Smaller Than They Appear
Dylan Folsom, Carlos Blanco, Mariangela Lisanti +3
The sensitivity of direct detection experiments depends on the phase-space distribution of dark matter near the Sun, which can be modeled theoretically using cosmological hydrodyna…
Darkness in the Crust: Searching for the truly "Dark" Subhalos with Paleo-detectors
Xiuyuan Zhang, Lina Necib, Denis Erkal
Low-mass dark matter (DM) subhalos are pivotal in understanding the small-scale structure of the universe, thereby offering a sensitive method to discriminate between different cos…
Decoding the Galactic Twirl: The Downfall of Milky Way-mass Galaxies Rotation Curves in the FIRE Simulations
Xiaowei Ou, Lina Necib, Andrew Wetzel +3
Recent measurements of the Milky Way rotation curve found a sharp decline at around - kpc from the center of the Galaxy, suggesting that the Galactic dark matter halo is mu…
Trial by FIRE: Probing the dark matter density profile of dwarf galaxies with GraphNPE
Tri Nguyen, Justin Read, Lina Necib +4
The Dark Matter (DM) distribution in dwarf galaxies provides crucial insights into both structure formation and the particle nature of DM. GraphNPE (Graph Neural Posterior Estimato…
Theoretical Predictions for the Inner Dark Matter Distribution in the Milky Way Informed by Simulations
Abdelaziz Hussein, Lina Necib, Manoj Kaplinghat +5
We build a theoretical range for the Milky Way's (MW) inner dark matter (DM) distribution informed by the FIRE-2, Auriga, VINTERGATAN-GM, and TNG50 simulation suites assuming the c…
Central densities of dark matter halos in FIRE-2 simulations of low-mass galaxies with cold dark matter and self-interacting dark matter
Maria C. Straight, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock +6
We investigate the central density structure of dark matter halos in cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models using simulations that are part of the Fe…
Effects of galactic environment on size and dark matter content in low-mass galaxies
Francisco J. Mercado, Jorge Moreno, Robert Feldmann +8
We utilize the cosmological volume simulation, FIREbox, to investigate how a galaxy's environment influences its size and dark matter content. Our study focuses on approximately 1,…