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Extragalactic stellar streams favour mildly oblate dark-matter haloes, with mean flattening near 0.72.

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load-bearing objection First real-data population constraint on extragalactic halo flattening from streams; the gold cut is post-hoc but transparent and does not invent the result. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2607.05510 v1 pith:INJE2NWV submitted 2026-07-06 astro-ph.GA

Constraints on the population level distribution of nearby Dark Matter halo shapes with extragalactic streams

David Chemaly , Elisabeth Sola , Sergey Koposov , HanYuan Zhang , Vasily Belokurov , Denis Erkal This is my paper
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keywords dark matter haloesstellar streamshalo flatteninghierarchical Bayesian inferenceextragalactic streamsaxisymmetric NFWpopulation distribution
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The pith

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Stellar streams are thin ribbons of stars torn from dwarf galaxies; their shapes record the gravity of the host's dark-matter halo. Most streams outside the Local Group are seen only as faint images, so each one alone gives only a weak, often ambiguous constraint on halo shape. This paper applies a hierarchical Bayesian pipeline to 32 carefully selected streams: each is forward-modelled with an axisymmetric halo and fitted to its projected track, then the individual posteriors are reweighted together to recover the population distribution of the flattening parameter q. A quality cut that discards streams dominated by model mismatch leaves a gold sample of 17 systems whose combined signal points to an oblate population (mean q approximately 0.72, intrinsic scatter approximately 0.34). The result matches the rounded, disk-aligned haloes expected once baryons are included in cosmological simulations, and shows that photometry alone can already constrain halo shapes beyond the Milky Way.

Core claim

For a gold subsample of 17 extragalactic streams whose projected tracks retain significant geometric information, hierarchical combination of the individual posteriors yields an oblate population of halo flattenings with mean mu_q = 0.72^{+0.16}_{-0.14} and intrinsic scatter sigma_q = 0.34^{+0.18}_{-0.19}, disfavouring purely spherical and prolate populations beyond roughly 1.5 sigma.

What carries the argument

Hierarchical importance sampling of individual Bayesian posteriors: each stream is forward-modelled with a particle-spray generator in an axisymmetric NFW halo (plus a free systematic scatter sigma_sys on the track), then the marginal posteriors on q are reweighted under a truncated-Gaussian population model without refitting.

Load-bearing premise

That an axisymmetric NFW halo plus one free extra scatter term is close enough to the true potential that the projected stream track still carries usable information about three-dimensional flattening after the hierarchical step.

What would settle it

A larger gold sample of streams, re-analysed with an explicit stellar-disk component and/or a triaxial halo, would shift the recovered population mean of q away from approximately 0.72 if the present axisymmetric, disk-free model is systematically biased.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper applies a hierarchical Bayesian pipeline (previously validated on mocks in C26) to 32 dynamically cold extragalactic stellar streams from the STRRINGS catalogue. Each stream is forward-modelled in an axisymmetric NFW potential and fit to the projected track only, with an extra systematic track variance σ_sys. Individual posteriors on the flattening q are reweighted via importance sampling under a truncated-Gaussian population model. After splitting on the fractional contribution of σ_sys, the gold subsample of 17 streams yields an oblate population μ_q = 0.72^{+0.16}_{-0.14}, σ_q = 0.34^{+0.18}_{-0.19}, while the bronze subsample is consistent with a near-spherical (prior-like) result. The gold inference is compared to IllustrisTNG/Auriga inner-halo expectations, and controlled disk-mock tests are used to argue that omitting a modest baryonic disk does not drive the result.

Significance. If the gold-sample result holds under more robust sample definitions, this is a first photometry-only population constraint on dark-matter halo flattening beyond the Local Group, and a scalable template for Euclid and Rubin/LSST stream samples. Strengths include the hierarchical importance-sampling design (reusing individual posteriors without O(N²) refits), explicit treatment of model mismatch via σ_sys, transparent reporting of both gold and bronze inferences, and controlled disk-injection mocks. The work is complementary to projected-potential reconstructions (e.g. Euclid Collaboration: Starkman et al. 2026) and correctly frames q as an effective total-potential flattening rather than a pure DM axis ratio.

major comments (3)
  1. Section 4.2 and Figure 3 (left panel): the gold/bronze split uses a 70% threshold on σ_sys/(σ_sys+σ_data) chosen after inspecting an apparently bimodal histogram. Because σ_sys is the same term introduced to absorb axisymmetric-model mismatch (Eq. 4, Section 3.2), the headline oblate result is formally the population mean of the subset already best described by that model. Please (i) report the hierarchical posterior for the full N=32 sample, (ii) show μ_q, σ_q as a continuous function of the threshold (e.g. 50–90%), and (iii) consider a continuous reweighting by information content (e.g. KL divergence of Section 5.1 or 1/σ_total) instead of a hard cut. Without these checks the gold mean cannot be cleanly separated from a selection effect.
  2. Section 5.3 / Figure 8: the disk-mock tests inject a Miyamoto–Nagai disk into spherical NFW hosts and re-analyse with the same σ_sys pipeline. They usefully bound face-on bias at high disk-to-halo mass, but they do not test whether a mixed true population (oblate+spherical+prolate) plus σ_sys-based selection can manufacture an apparently oblate gold mean. A minimal extension—mock populations drawn from the reported gold (μ_q,σ_q) and from a spherical population, both processed through the identical gold cut—would directly address whether the selection itself biases μ_q.
  3. Sections 3.1–3.2: one on-sky progenitor coordinate is fixed (observed candidate or highest-SB track point) and a linear mass-loss prescription is imposed when no progenitor is seen. For several gold systems the track is long and the progenitor location is uncertain; residual bias in the inner track can couple into the orientation vector (x,y,z) and hence into q. Please quantify, at least for a few high-KL gold streams (e.g. NGC0804, NGC5263), the shift in the marginal q posterior when the fixed coordinate is allowed to vary along the track within a prior of width comparable to the stream width.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: gold cut selects on track residual information content, not on q; hierarchical result is data-driven reweighting under an external-motivated population model.

full rationale

The load-bearing chain is: (1) independent Bayesian fits of each stream track under an axisymmetric NFW + free σ_sys (Eq. 4), with uniform interim prior on q ∈ [0.5, 1.5]; (2) hierarchical importance reweighting of the resulting marginal q posteriors under a truncated-Gaussian population model (Eq. 12, §3.4); (3) report of (μ_q, σ_q) for a gold subset defined by σ_sys/(σ_sys+σ_data) < 70%. None of these steps reduces the claimed population mean to its inputs by construction. σ_sys is a residual track-mismatch nuisance, not a function of the preferred q; low σ_sys means some q in the prior range can reproduce the geometry within small residuals, but does not force which q. Bronze relaxing to μ_q ≈ 1 is the expected prior-dominated limit when information is lost (paper §4.2), while gold’s μ_q ≈ 0.72 is the actual data-driven shift. The 70% threshold is post-hoc and a selection-effect concern, but that is not definitional circularity under the analyzer rules. C26 is a same-author method/mock-validation paper; the real-data population claim does not rest on an unverified uniqueness theorem or ansatz imported from it. Population form is motivated by external hydro simulations (Chua+19, Prada+19), not forced by the STRRINGS fits. Score 1 for ordinary method self-citation only.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 4 axioms · 2 invented entities

The central claim rests on a standard hierarchical Bayesian reweighting of stream posteriors, an axisymmetric NFW potential, a hand-chosen quality cut, and several modelling simplifications whose impact is only partially quantified by mocks. No new physical entities are postulated; the free parameters are the usual dynamical ones plus the diagnostic threshold and the systematic scatter.

free parameters (5)
  • gold/bronze threshold (σ_sys / (σ_sys + σ_data) = 70 %)
    Chosen by eye to split a bimodal histogram (Section 4.2); directly defines the sample that yields the headline μ_q ≈ 0.72 result.
  • systematic track scatter σ_sys prior U(0,25) kpc
    Wide uniform prior that self-regulates but still enters every individual likelihood and the gold selection.
  • population model truncated Gaussian on q ∈ [0.5,1.5]
    Functional form and support adopted from simulation expectations; hyperparameters μ_q, σ_q are fitted.
  • fixed progenitor on-sky coordinate and mass-loss prescription
    Progenitor location fixed to highest-surface-brightness point or candidate; mass linearly reduced to zero when invisible (Section 3.1).
  • particle oversampling floor (max(10^4, 1500 per data point))
    Empirical choice to keep model noise below data noise (Section 3.1).
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Host potential is adequately described by a static axisymmetric NFW halo; baryonic disk, triaxiality and time-dependent perturbers can be absorbed into a single extra Gaussian scatter σ_sys.
    Stated in Sections 3.1–3.2 and tested only with simplified Miyamoto–Nagai mocks in Section 5.3.
  • domain assumption Projected stream track geometry retains sufficient information about three-dimensional halo flattening once an ensemble is combined hierarchically.
    Core premise of the C26 framework, re-used without new derivation (Section 3.4).
  • standard math Streams are conditionally independent given their individual parameters and are drawn from a common population prior on q.
    Standard hierarchical Bayesian assumption (Eq. 7).
  • domain assumption Measurement errors on the binned track radii are Gaussian and independent across angular bins.
    Adopted from STRRINGS track extraction (Eq. 2).
invented entities (2)
  • gold / bronze subsample classification no independent evidence
    purpose: To isolate streams whose tracks retain constraining power after model mismatch is absorbed by σ_sys.
    Defined post-hoc by a 70 % threshold on the fractional systematic contribution; no independent external definition.
  • additional systematic track variance σ_sys no independent evidence
    purpose: To inflate the likelihood and diagnose model inadequacy.
    Standard nuisance parameter in stream modelling, but its use as a hard sample cut is specific to this paper.

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Stellar streams trace the gravitational potential of their host galaxies and provide a sensitive probe of dark matter halo structure. Previously, we developed, and tested on simulated data, a hierarchical Bayesian framework to infer the population level distribution of dark matter halo shapes from ensembles of extragalactic stellar streams with images only. In this work, we apply this pipeline to 32 stellar streams from the STRRINGS catalogue, a curated sample of dynamically cold minor-merger streams detected in deep imaging. Each stream is forward-modelled assuming an axisymmetric halo and fitted using only the projected stream track, yielding posterior constraints on the halo flattening parameter $q$. To account for model mismatch and track systematics, we introduce an additional variance term that inflates the uncertainty on the projected stream track and use it to identify a high quality (gold) subsample of 17 streams whose tracks retain significant constraining power. We then combine the individual posteriors through importance sampling to infer the underlying population distribution of halo flattening. For the \textit{gold} subsample, we infer an oblate population with mean $\mu_q \approx 0.72$ and intrinsic scatter $\sigma_q \approx 0.34$. Streams dominated by additional model variance yield a nearly spherical population inference. The inferred oblate population for the gold sample is broadly consistent with expectations from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. This work provides constraints on dark matter halo flattening from stellar streams beyond the Local Group and establishes a scalable framework for forthcoming large samples from Euclid and Rubin/LSST.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.05510 by David Chemaly, Denis Erkal, Elisabeth Sola, Hanyuan Zhang, Sergey Koposov, Vasily Belokurov.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Examples of fits for eight streams chosen from the STRRINGS catalogue. The residual image with the extracted stream track (red) is shown in the left panel. The middle panel overlays the best fit, and the right panel shows the posterior distribution of the dark matter halo flattening assuming an axisymmetric NFW potential. The black vertical line marks the spherical case (𝑞 = 1), with oblate configurations … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Distribution of the per stream track uncertainty 𝜎data (red), the inferred additional scatter term 𝜎sys (blue), and the total effective scatter 𝜎total = √︃ 𝜎2 data + 𝜎2 sys (purple). Each distribution is constructed from one summary value per stream (𝑁 = 32) and smoothed with a kernel density estimate (KDE). The mean of each distribution is shown in the legend, and the black vertical line represents the me… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Posterior distributions of the population hyperparameters (𝜇𝑞, 𝜎𝑞 ) obtained by splitting the sample according to the fractional contribution of the systematic term to the total uncertainty, 𝜎sys/(𝜎sys + 𝜎data ) (left panel). Streams with a ratio below 70% are classified as the gold sample (middle; gold), while those above 70% form the bronze sample (right; red). Each corner overlays the other sample’s 1𝜎 … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: KL divergence between the posterior and the uniform prior on halo flattening, shown for the 17 gold streams, as a function of four stream properties (from left to right): the angular length, the physical length, the mean projected radius, and the projected radial spread (the standard deviation of the radial range probed by the projected track). All panels share the same vertical (𝐷KL) axis. In each panel t… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Projected halo orientations for all 17 gold galaxies from the STRRINGS catalogue, ordered by constraining power (tightest first). The background images are taken from DESI-LS. The red dashed line shows the disk position angle (PA). The gold ellipses represent 1000 posterior samples of the projected halo major axis; the dashed gold line is the median orientation, the dotted gold lines mark the 16th and 84th… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Joint probability density distribution of the projected misalignment angle 𝜃 (between the disk PA and the halo major axis) and the halo flattening 𝑞, pooled over all 17 gold streams. Each stream contributes an equal number of posterior samples, so every galaxy carries equal weight; the pooled ( 𝜃, 𝑞) samples are binned in 10◦ × 0.1 cells and the colour shows the (power￾stretched) density. The cyan dashed l… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Recovered population parameters (𝜇𝑞, 𝜎𝑞 ) as a function of disk￾to-halo mass ratio for mock populations including a Miyamoto–Nagai disk but analysed with a disk free halo model. Each point represents a population of 32 streams. Edge-on (green) and face-on (red) disk orientations are shown separately. The shaded regions indicate the 1𝜎 constraints from the gold (in yellow) and bronze (in red) samples in the… view at source ↗

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