Subhalos are Anisotropically Distributed and Aligned with the Smooth Matter Distribution of Their Host Halos

Lorena Mezini, Andrew R. Zentner, Kuan Wang +1

We investigate the distributions of subhalos about their hosts in two suites of zoom-in N-body simulations of halo growth -- one suite focused on Milky Way-Mass halos ($\sim 10^{12…