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most citedToo big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes

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astro-ph.CO20111.4k cited

Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes

Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

We show that dissipationless LCDM simulations predict that the majority of the most massive subhaloes of the Milky Way are too dense to host any of its bright satellites (L_V > 10^…

astro-ph.CO20094 cited

Observing the Evolution of the Universe

James Aguirre, Alexandre Amblard, Amjad Ashoorioon +172

How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the univers…

astro-ph.CO200915 cited

The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

S. Dodelson, R. Easther, S. Hanany +61

Modern cosmology has sharpened questions posed for millennia about the origin of our cosmic habitat. The age-old questions have been transformed into two pressing issues primed for…

astro-ph.CO20094 cited

Dwarf Galaxies in 2010: Revealing Galaxy Formation's Threshold and Testing the Nature of Dark Matter

James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Andrew Fruchter +4

Over the past five years, searches in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data have more than doubled the number of known dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, and have revealed a popula…

astro-ph.CO200913 cited

Strong gravitational lensing probes of the particle nature of dark matter

Leonidas A. Moustakas, Kevork Abazajian, Andrew Benson +44

There is a vast menagerie of plausible candidates for the constituents of dark matter, both within and beyond extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. Each of these ca…