2011

Ultra-fine dark matter structure in the Solar neighbourhood

Fantin, Daniele S. M., Green, Anne M., Merrifield, Michael R.

Understand

The direct detection of dark matter on Earth depends crucially on its density and its velocity distribution on a milliparsec scale.

  • Conventional N-body simulations are unable to access this scale, making the development of other approaches necessary.
  • In this paper, we apply the method developed in Fantin et al.
  • 2008 to a cosmologically-based merger tree, transforming it into a useful instrument to reproduce and analyse the merger history of a Milky Way-like system.

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