Constraining a Thin Dark Matter Disk with Gaia

If a component of the dark matter has dissipative interactions, it could collapse to form a thin dark disk in our Galaxy that is coplanar with the baryonic disk. It has been suggested that dark disks could explain a variety of observed phenomena, including periodic comet impacts. Using the first dat...

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Main Authors: Schutz, Katelin (Author), Lin, Tongyan (Author), Safdi, Benjamin R. (Author), Wu, Chih-Liang (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2018-09-07T15:06:23Z.
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