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An Off-center Density Peak in the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo?

  • Authors: Michael Kuhlen, Javiera Guedes, Annalisa Pillepich, Piero Madau, and Lucio Mayer

Kuhlen et al. 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 765 10.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Visualizations of the motion of the potential minimum in Eris in absolute (code) units, color coded by redshift. Top: from z = 1.5 to z = 1.1. At z = 1.3 a satellite passes near to the center, but it does not noticeably perturb the dynamical center. Bottom: the last 40 outputs, from z = 0.1 down to z = 0. The location of the maximum DM density is marked with a small black sphere connected with a thin line to the position of the potential minimum at that time.

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