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Detecting the disruption of dark-matter halos with stellar streams

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Narrow stellar streams in the Milky Way halo are uniquely sensitive to dark-matter subhalos, but many of these subhalos may be tidally disrupted. I calculate the interaction between stellar and dark-matter streams using analytical and $N$-body calculations, showing that disrupting objects can be detected as low-concentration subhalos. Through this effect, we can constrain the lumpiness of the halo as well as the orbit and present position of individual dark-matter streams. This will have profound implications for the formation of halos and for direct and indirect-detection dark-matter searches.

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  • Globular cluster distributions as a dynamical probe of dark matter astro-ph.GA · 2025-04-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 44 · internal anchor

    N-body and semianalytic simulations indicate that globular cluster distributions in UDG1 and Fornax require dark matter halos via dynamical friction, while DF44 yields no strong constraint.