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Dark matter heats up in dwarf galaxies
J. I. Read, M. G. Walker, P. Steger
Gravitational potential fluctuations driven by bursty star formation can kinematically 'heat up' dark matter at the centres of dwarf galaxies. A key prediction of such models is th…
astro-ph.GA2018★ 133 cited
The case for a cold dark matter cusp in Draco
J. I. Read, M. G. Walker, P. Steger
We use a new mass modelling method, GravSphere, to measure the central dark matter density profile of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Draco's star formation shut down long ago,…