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Disentangling the Morphology of Palomar~5: Effects of the Bar, Spiral Arms, LMC, and Halo Flattening
Zhenghao He, Long Wang, Zi-yi Zhou +2
The Palomar~5 (Pal~5) globular cluster and its tidal tails provide a sensitive probe of globular-cluster evolution in the time-dependent Milky Way potential. We study the past 3~Gy…
SchwarMAX: a GPU-friendly Schwarzschild orbit-superposition modelling framework
HanYuan Zhang, David Chemaly, Eugene Vasiliev +3
The Schwarzschild orbit-superposition method is a highly flexible dynamical modelling tool. It constrains the mass distribution of a galaxy using line-of-sight velocity and photome…
Self-interacting dark matter promotes bar formation in disk galaxies
Shashank Dattathri, Frank C. van den Bosch, HanYuan Zhang +4
Despite its remarkable success on large scales, the standard CDM paradigm faces persistent small-scale challenges that have motivated alternative models for the dark sector. Sel…
No Stream Left Unscathed: The imprint of a host galaxy
Arpit Arora, Peter S. Ferguson, Jacob Nibauer +11
Stellar streams from disrupted globular clusters are excellent probes of dark matter (DM) subhalos. Observed Milky Way streams display a remarkable diversity of features: spurs, ga…
Multi-component, axisymmetric dynamical models of dSphs based on distribution functions: inferences on dark matter and intermediate-mass black holes in Draco and Ursa Minor
R. Pascale, G. Battaglia, J. M. Arroyo-Polonio +3
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are prime laboratories for studying dark matter (DM) and the black hole demographics in the low-mass regime. These systems are also often flattene…
Distribution function-based modelling of discrete kinematic datasets, in application to the Milky Way nuclear star cluster
Eugene Vasiliev, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Mattia C. Sormani
We present a method for constructing dynamical models of stellar systems described by distribution functions and constrained by discrete-kinematic data. We implement various improv…