Dark matter caustics
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Pierre Sikivie
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The late infall of cold dark matter onto an isolated galaxy, such as our own, produces streams and caustics in its halo. The outer caustics are topological spheres, whereas the inner caustics are rings. The self-similar model of galactic halo formation predicts that the caustic ring radii follow the