Infall of substructures onto a Milky Way-like dark halo.pdfVIP

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 1–9 (2007) Printed 11 March 2008 (MN LATEX style file v2.2) Infall of Substructures onto a Milky Way-like Dark Halo Yang-Shyang Li? and Amina Helmi? Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands 11 March 2008 ABSTRACT We analyse the dynamical properties of substructures in a high-resolution dark matter simu- lation of the formation of a Milky Way-like halo in a ΛCDM cosmology. Our goal is to shed light on the dynamical peculiarities of the Milky Way satellites. Our simulations show that about 1/3 of the