Stellar stream curvature constrains dark matter halo axis ratios and orientations in external galaxies, with some streams excluding broad ranges of flattenings while all support spherical halos for fixed flattening directions.
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COLIBRE simulations find kinematic galaxy morphology peaks in rotational support at stellar masses of 1-2 x 10^10 solar masses and correlates more with internal properties like gas richness than with host halo properties.
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Potamides: Mapping Dark Matter Halo Shapes from Stellar Stream Tracks in the Local Universe
Stellar stream curvature constrains dark matter halo axis ratios and orientations in external galaxies, with some streams excluding broad ranges of flattenings while all support spherical halos for fixed flattening directions.
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The morphologies of present-day galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations
COLIBRE simulations find kinematic galaxy morphology peaks in rotational support at stellar masses of 1-2 x 10^10 solar masses and correlates more with internal properties like gas richness than with host halo properties.