microhaloes

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A form of microhalo — A small galactic halo.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of microhalo
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    This suggests that halo profiles are not universal but rather a combination of (1) the physics of the formation of the microhaloes and (2) their early merger history, which are both set by the properties of the dark matter particle, as well as (3) the resilience of NFW-like profiles to perturbations..

    2016, Raul E. Angulo, Oliver Hahn, Aaron Ludlow, Silvia Bonoli, “Earth-mass haloes and the emergence of NFW density profiles”, in arXiv
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