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Cold Dark Matter Substructure and the Heating of Galactic Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Andreea S. Font  and
Julio F. Navarro
Andreea S. Font
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 1A1, Canada
Julio F. Navarro
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 1A1, Canada

Abstract

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We investigate recent suggestions that substructure in cold dark matter (CDM) halos has potentially destructive effects on galactic disks. N-body simulations of disk/bulge models of the Milky Way, embedded in a dark matter halo with substructure similar to that found in cosmological simulations, show that tides from substructure halos play only a minor role in the dynamical heating of the stellar disk. This suggests that substructure might not preclude CDM halos from being acceptable hosts of thin stellar disks.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 208: Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particle Simulations , 2003 , pp. 391 - 392
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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