# Morphological Types of DM Halos in Milky Way-like Galaxies in the TNG50 Simulation: Simple, Twisted, or Stretched

@article{Emami2021MorphologicalTO,
title={Morphological Types of DM Halos in Milky Way-like Galaxies in the TNG50 Simulation: Simple, Twisted, or Stretched},
author={Razieh Emami and Shy Genel and Lars E. Hernquist and Charles R. Alcock and Sownak Bose and Rainer Weinberger and Mark Vogelsberger and Federico Marinacci and Abraham Loeb and Paul Torrey and John C. Forbes},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
year={2021},
volume={913}
}
• Published 19 September 2020
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal
We present a comprehensive analysis of the shape of dark matter (DM) halos in a sample of 25 Milky Way-like galaxies in TNG50 simulation. Using an enclosed volume iterative method, we infer an oblate-to-triaxial shape for the DM halo with median T ≃ 0.24. We group DM halos into three different categories. Simple halos (32% of the population) establish principal axes whose ordering in magnitude does not change with radius and whose orientations are almost fixed throughout the halo. Twisted halos…
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