Shaping the Milky Way. II. The dark matter halo's response to the LMC's passage in a cosmological context

Elise Darragh-Ford, Nicolas Garavito-Camargo, Arpit Arora +15

The distribution of dark matter in the Milky Way (MW) is expected to exhibit a large-scale dynamical response to the recent infall of the LMC. This event produces a dynamical frict…