Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...205.4602m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #46.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1414
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
It is now evident that our Milky Way has cannibalistic tendencies. Recently found examples of satellite star systems being digested by our galaxy demonstrate that Milky Way-like spiral galaxies continue to grow through the piecemeal accumulation of mass from smaller neighbors, as predicted by Cold Dark Matter (CDM) models of structure formation. Cross-sections of the Milky Way halo reveal it to be networked with long-lived, coherent debris streams of stars and star clusters that attest to its accretive formation. These dynamically cold streams, created from the tidal disruption of satellite star systems, in turn provide useful tools to explore both the nature of Galactic dwarf satellites as well as the the dark matter distribution of the Milky Way; the results of such work, however, yield some unexpected results compared to current CDM models. (Research described has been supported by NASA/JPL, the National Science Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the F.H. Levinson Fund of the Peninsula Community Foundation.)
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