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2021MNRAS.502.2364B - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 502, 2364-2380 (2021/April-1)

Evidence of a population of dark subhaloes from Gaia and Pan-STARRS observations of the GD-1 stream.

BANIK N., BOVY J., BERTONE G., ERKAL D. and DE BOER T.J.L.

Abstract (from CDS):

New data from the Gaia satellite, when combined with accurate photometry from the Pan-STARRS survey, allow us to accurately estimate the properties of the GD-1 stream. Here, we analyse the stellar density variations in the GD-1 stream and show that they cannot be due to known baryonic structures such as giant molecular clouds, globular clusters, or the Milky Way's bar or spiral arms. A joint analysis of the GD-1 and Pal 5 streams instead requires a population of dark substructures with masses ≃107-109\M☉. We infer a total abundance of dark subhaloes normalized to standard cold dark matter nsub/n_sub, CDM_ = 0.4 +0.3–0.2 (68 per cent), which corresponds to a mass fraction contained in the subhaloes f_ sub_ = 0.14 +0.11–0.07 per cent, compatible with the predictions of hydrodynamical simulation of cold dark matter with baryons.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: evolution - Galaxy: halo - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics - Galaxy: structure - cosmology: dark matter

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