Abstract
ABSTRACT We examine the spatial distribution and orbital pole correlations of satellites in a suite of zoom-in high-resolution dissipationless simulations of Milky Way (MW)-sized haloes. We use the measured distribution to estimate the incidence of satellite configurations as flattened and as correlated in their orbital pole distribution as the satellite system of the MW. We confirm that this incidence is sensitive to the radial distribution of subhaloes and thereby to the processes that affect it, such as artificial disruption due to numerical effects and disruption due to the central disc. Controlling for the resolution effects and bracketing the effects of the disc, we find that the MW satellite system is somewhat unusual (at the ≈2–3σ level) but is statistically consistent with the Lambda cold dark matter model, in general agreement with results and conclusions of other recent studies.
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