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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 775, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/775/1/L30
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dark matter; galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Local Group
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- [NSF-0908639]
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Using a newly developed modeling technique, we present orbit-based dynamical models of the Carina, Draco, Fornax, Sculptor, and Sextans dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. These models calculate the dark matter profiles non-parametrically without requiring any assumptions to be made about their profile shapes. By lifting this restriction, we discover a host of dark matter profiles in the dSphs that are different from the typical profiles suggested by both theorists and observers. However, when we scale these profiles appropriately and plot them on a common axis, they appear to follow an approximate r (1) power law with considerable scatter.
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