Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies

LV Sales, A Wetzel, A Fattahi - Nature Astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxies and their dark-matter haloes have posed several challenges to the dark energy
plus cold dark matter (Λ CDM) cosmological model. These discrepancies between …

Dark matters on the scale of galaxies

I de Martino, SS Chakrabarty, V Cesare, A Gallo… - Universe, 2020 - mdpi.com
The cold dark-matter model successfully explains both the emergence and evolution of
cosmic structures on large scales and, when we include a cosmological constant, the …

The saga survey. ii. building a statistical sample of satellite systems around milky way–like galaxies

YY Mao, M Geha, RH Wechsler, B Weiner… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the Stage II results from the ongoing Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA)
Survey. Upon completion, the SAGA Survey will spectroscopically identify satellite galaxies …

Ultrafaint dwarfs in a Milky Way context: introducing the Mint condition DC Justice League simulations

E Applebaum, AM Brooks, CR Christensen… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the" Mint" resolution DC Justice League suite of Milky Way–like
zoom-in cosmological simulations, which extend our study of nearby galaxies down into the …

The Local Group on FIRE: dwarf galaxy populations across a suite of hydrodynamic simulations

S Garrison-Kimmel, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a new set of high-resolution hydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulations
that apply the Feedback In Realistic Environments physics to both Local Group (LG)-like and …

On the origin of the chemical bimodality of disc stars: a tale of merger and migration

T Buck - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Milky Way's (MW) stellar disc exhibits a bimodality in the [Fe/H] versus
[α/Fe] plane, showing a distinct high-and low-α sequences whose origin is still under debate …

Extinguishing the FIRE: environmental quenching of satellite galaxies around Milky Way-mass hosts in simulations

J Samuel, A Wetzel, I Santistevan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The star formation and gas content of satellite galaxies around the Milky Way (MW) and
Andromeda (M31) are depleted relative to more isolated galaxies in the Local Group (LG) at …

Star formation histories of dwarf galaxies in the FIRE simulations: dependence on mass and Local Group environment

S Garrison-Kimmel, A Wetzel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study star formation histories (SFHs) of 500 dwarf galaxies (stellar mass) from FIRE-2
cosmological zoom-in simulations. We compare dwarfs around individual Milky Way (MW) …

A profile in FIRE: resolving the radial distributions of satellite galaxies in the Local Group with simulations

J Samuel, A Wetzel, E Tollerud… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
While many tensions between Local Group (LG) satellite galaxies and Λ cold dark matter
cosmology have been alleviated through recent cosmological simulations, the spatial …

The abundance of satellites around Milky Way-and M31-like galaxies with the TNG50 simulation: a matter of diversity

C Engler, A Pillepich, A Pasquali… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We study the abundance of satellite galaxies around 198 Milky Way-(MW) and M31-like
hosts in TNG50, the final installment in the IllustrisTNG suite of cosmological …