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A ROBUST MEASURE OF DARK MATTER HALO ELLIPTICITIES

  • Authors: Jarah Evslin

2016 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 826 L23.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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The confidence with which the Gaia Space Telescope, combined with a single epoch of TMT observations, can distinguish a spherically symmetric matter distribution in a Sculptor-like dwarf spheroidal galaxy from a triaxial dark matter distribution with semi-principal axis ratios similar to those found in ΛCDM satellites. The angles Θ and Φ characterize the orientations of the semi-principal axes with respect to the line of sight.

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