Triaxial cosmological haloes and the disc of satellites
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We construct simple triaxial generalizations of Navarro–Frenk–White haloes. The models have elementary gravitational potentials, together with a density that is cusped like 1/r at small radii and falls off like 1/r3 at large radii. The ellipticity varies with radius in a manner that can be tailored to the user's specification. The closed periodic orbits in the planes perpendicular to the short and long axes of the model are well described by epicyclic theory, and can be used as building blocks for long-lived discs. As an application, we carry out the simulations of thin discs of satellites in triaxial dark halo potentials. This is motivated by the recent claims of an extended, thin disc of satellites around the M31 galaxy with a vertical rms scatter of ∼12 kpc and a radial extent of ∼300 kpc. We show that a thin satellite disc can persist over cosmological times if and only if it lies in the planes perpendicular to the long or short axis of a triaxial halo, or in the equatorial or polar planes of a spheroidal halo. In any other orientation, then the disc thickness doubles on ∼5 Gyr time-scales and so must have been born with an implausibly small vertical scaleheight.
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- Authors
- Bowden, A., Evans, N. W., & Belokurov, V.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Bowden, A.
- Evans, N. W.
- Belokurov, V.
- Venue
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2013-09-03
- Volume
- 435
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 928-933
- ISSN
- 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2966
- OpenAlex
- W2056273051
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 2.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/H00243X/1, ST/K000985/1, ST/K501918/1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Keywords
- Navarro-Frenk-White halo, M31, disk stability, halo ellipticity, dark matter halos
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