Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Xiaowei Ou, Lina Necib, Andrew Wetzel, Anna Frebel, Jeremy Bailin | Summary: Recent measurements of the Milky Way rotation curve found a sharp decline at around $15$-$20$ kpc from the center of the Galaxy, suggesting that the Galactic dark matter halo is much less massive than predicted […]
Continue.. Decoding the Galactic Twirl: The Downfall of Milky Way-mass Galaxies Rotation Curves in the FIRE Simulations