THE SPHERICALIZATION OF DARK MATTER HALOS BY GALAXY DISKS
@article{Kazantzidis2010THESO, title={THE SPHERICALIZATION OF DARK MATTER HALOS BY GALAXY DISKS}, author={Stelios Kazantzidis and Mario G. Abadi and Julio F. Navarro}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2010}, volume={720} }
Cosmological simulations indicate that cold dark matter (CDM) halos should be triaxial. Validating this theoretical prediction is, however, less than straightforward because the assembly of galaxies is expected to modify halo shapes and to render them more axisymmetric. We use a suite of N-body simulations to quantitatively investigate the effect of the growth of a central disk galaxy on the shape of triaxial dark matter halos. In most circumstances, the halo responds to the presence of the…
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