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The Dark Disk of the Milky Way
Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat
Massive satellite accretions onto early galactic disks can lead to the deposition of dark matter in disk-like configurations that co-rotate with the galaxy. This phenomenon has pot…
astro-ph.GA2009★ 2 cited
The Role of Dwarf Galaxies in Building Large Stellar Halos
Evan N. Kirby, Puragra Guhathakurta, James S. Bullock +10
The hierarchical theory of galaxy formation rests on the idea that smaller galactic structures merge to form the galaxies that we see today. The past decade has provided remarkable…