Constraining the Inner Dark-Matter Slope of Sculptor: A Comparative Analysis of Dynamical Methods

arXiv:2608.23618 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-22 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-22

Updated: 2026-09-02

Code: https://github.com/IndyRishi/gammascope

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Metallicity — 60× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Core — 36× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Anisotropy — 24× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Degeneracy — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Calibration — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Action Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Velocity Dispersion — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Baryonic Feedback — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Systematic Bias — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Boltzmann Equation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Collisionless Boltzmann Equation — 1× in this paper
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper

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