The Relevance of Dynamical Friction for the MW/LMC/SMC Triple System
The Relevance of Dynamical Friction for the MW/LMC/SMC Triple System Wolfgang Oehm (Bonn), Pavel Kroupa (Bonn, Prague) arXiv:2403.17999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulations of structure formation in the standard cold dark matter cosmological model quantify the dark matter halos of galaxies. Taking into account dynamical friction between the dark matter halos, we investigate the past orbital dynamical evolution of the Magellanic Clouds in the presence of the Galaxy. Our calculations are based on a three-body model of rigid Navarro-Frenk-White profiles for the dark matter halos, but were verified in a previous publication by comparison to high-resolution N-body simulations of live self-consistent systems. Under the requirementRead More →