Speaker
Description
The Milky Way and its satellite galaxies provide invaluable laboratories for exploring the nature of dark matter.
Their structural and dynamical properties offer unique opportunities to place constraints on dark matter spatial and velocity distributions on small scales.
These systems are also prime targets for direct and indirect dark matter searches.
Unveiling their dark matter distributions requires detailed kinematic data from plenty of stellar samples and a thorough understanding of the systematics involved in dynamical modeling.
In this talk, I will present current efforts to constrain dark matter in the Milky Way and its dwarf satellites using dynamical analyses of the available data. I will also discuss future prospects for advancing these studies, including improvements in data quality and modeling techniques.
