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Dynamical friction vs. subhalo heating in Cold Dark Matter haloes
Jorge Peñarrubia, Pierfrancesco Di Cintio, Eduardo Vitral +1
The orbital evolution of massive stellar systems embedded in dark matter haloes is governed by competing processes. Dynamical friction removes orbital energy, whereas fluctuations…
Structural Diversity Among the Milky Way's Dwarf Spheroidal Satellites
Matthew G. Walker, Raphaël Errani, Andrew B. Pace +3
We fit a flexible double power-law (`') model to the stellar density fields observed for the Milky Way's known dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies. We show that where standard…
Collisional Dynamics of Stars and Dark Matter in Ultra-Faint Galaxies
Raphaël Errani, Nicolas Esser, Jorge Peñarrubia +1
We use controlled N-body simulations to study the collisional exchange of energy between stars and dark matter in ultra-faint galaxies. We find that dynamical friction between star…
Tailored mass estimators for Milky Way dwarf Spheroidals
Sofia L. Splawska, Raphaël Errani, Jorge Peñarrubia +1
Assuming spherical symmetry and dynamical equilibrium within a given gravitational potential, a dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy's globally averaged stellar velocity dispersion depen…
Stellar Cores Live Long and Prosper in Cuspy Dark Matter Halos
Jenni Häkkinen, Alexander Rawlings, Till Sawala +1
The existence of cuspy or cored centers of dark matter halos is a crucial discriminant between different dark matter models. It has recently been claimed based on dynamical argumen…
Signatures of dark subhalos in dwarf spheroidal galaxies: I. Fluctuations in surface density
Eduardo Vitral, Jorge Peñarrubia, Matthew G. Walker
Dark matter (DM) subhalos offer critical tests of cosmological models through their abundance and properties, yet most remain undetectable due to their lack of stars. We investigat…
Gravothermal expansion of dwarf spheroidal galaxies heated by dark subhaloes
Jorge Peñarrubia, Raphaël Errani, Eduardo Vitral +1
We use analytical and -body methods to study the evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) embedded in dark matter (DM) haloes that host a sizeable subhalo population. Dark…
Stellar Mass Segregation in Dark Matter Halos
Raphaël Errani, Jorge Peñarrubia, Matthew G. Walker
We study the effect of stellar mass segregation driven by collisional relaxation within the potential well of a smooth dark matter halo. This effect is of particular relevance for…
Impulsive mixing of stellar populations in dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Raphaël Errani, Matthew G. Walker, Simon Rozier +2
We study the response of mono-energetic stellar populations with initially isotropic kinematics to impulsive and adiabatic changes to an underlying dark matter potential. Half-ligh…
HSTPROMO Internal Proper Motion Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: I. Velocity Anisotropy and Dark Matter Cusp Slope of Draco
Eduardo Vitral, Roeland P. van der Marel, Sangmo Tony Sohn +8
We analyze four epochs of HST imaging over 18 years for the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We measure precise proper motions (PMs) for hundreds of stars and combine these with exis…
Capture of field stars by dark substructures
Jorge Peñarrubia, Raphaël Errani, Matthew G. Walker +2
We use analytical and -body methods to study the capture of field stars by gravitating substructures moving across a galactic environment. The majority of stars captured by a su…
Micro galaxies in LCDM
Raphaël Errani, Rodrigo Ibata, Julio F. Navarro +2
A fundamental prediction of the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmology is the centrally divergent cuspy density profile of dark matter haloes. Density cusps render CDM haloes res…
Constraining Self-Interacting Dark Matter with the Milky Way's dwarf spheroidals
Jesus Zavala, Mark Vogelsberger, Matthew G. Walker
Self-Interacting Dark Matter is an attractive alternative to the Cold Dark Matter paradigm only if it is able to substantially reduce the central densities of dwarf-size haloes whi…