# Comment on the paper "On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities"

## TL;DR

This paper critiques a previous study on the correlation between local dark matter and stellar velocities, clarifying inaccuracies and reaffirming earlier claims about their kinematic relationship.

## Contribution

It provides a detailed clarification of earlier findings and addresses misrepresentations in a recent critique regarding dark matter and stellar velocity correlations.

## Key findings

- Previous claims about dark matter-stellar velocity correlation are reaffirmed.
- The critique's conclusions are based on misrepresented data.
- Clarification supports the original theoretical models.

## Abstract

We briefly comment on the paper "On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities" (Bozorgnia et al. 2018), which purports to test our previous claims regarding the correlation of stellar and dark matter kinematics (Herzog-Arbeitman et al. 2017; Necib et al. 2018). The conclusions of these papers are not accurately presented in Bozorgnia et al. (2018), and we thus clarify them here.