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Halo Orbits in Cosmological Disk Galaxies: Tracers of Formation History

  • Authors: Monica Valluri, Victor P. Debattista, Gregory S. Stinson, Jeremy Bailin, Thomas R. Quinn, H. M. P. Couchman, and James Wadsley

Valluri et al. 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 767 93.

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Axis ratios b/ a (top) and c/ a (middle), and triaxiality T (bottom) vs. radius from the center of galaxy g15784 for dark matter particles (solid lines) and halo stars (dot-dashed lines). The dark matter halo is oblate in the inner ~15 kpc, transitioning to triaxial (0.33 < T < 0.66) at larger radii. The stellar halo is nearly oblate within ~50 kpc ( T ~ 0.2) and becomes slightly triaxial beyond this radius.

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