Spurious heating of stellar motions in simulated galactic disks by dark matter halo particles
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2770
Abstract: We use idealized N-body simulations of equilibrium stellar disks embedded within course-grained dark matter haloes to study the effects of spurious collisional heating on disk structure and kinematics. Collisional heating artificially increases the vertical and… read more here.
Keywords: matter halo; matter; dark matter; mass ... See more keywords