Gurtina Besla

The Role of Dark Matter in Driving Disk Perturbations: Application to LMC–SMC-like Galaxy Interactions

Abstract Dark matter (DM) models predict that satellite galaxies distort their host’s DM halo. As such, both the satellite and the distorted halo can perturb the host’s stellar disk. The LMC–SMC system is a nearby ∼1:10 mass ratio binary with a well-constrained orbit and well-cha...