Stellar Streams as Dark Matter Maps | astrobites - Astrobites
5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 11 months ago
by Zili Shen
by Zili Shen
Stellar streams are beautiful structures that trace the dark matter distribution of a galaxy. Today’s paper looks beyond our Milky Way for streams in external galaxies.
Title: Mapping Dark Matter with Extragalactic Stellar Streams: the Case of Centaurus A Authors: Sarah Pearson, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Anil C. Seth, David J. Sand, Jason A. S. Hunt, … [+5990 chars]
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