The faintest dwarf galaxies

JD Simon - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The lowest luminosity (L) Milky Way satellite galaxies represent the extreme lower limit of the
galaxy luminosity function. These ultra-faint dwarfs are the oldest, most dark matter …

Dark matter haloes and subhaloes

J Zavala, CS Frenk - Galaxies, 2019 - mdpi.com
The development of methods and algorithms to solve the N-body problem for classical,
collisionless, non-relativistic particles has made it possible to follow the growth and …

Cosmological simulations with self-interacting dark matter–I. Constant-density cores and substructure

M Rocha, AHG Peter, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We use cosmological simulations to study the effects of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM)
on the density profiles and substructure counts of dark-matter haloes from the scales of …

APOGEE chemical abundance patterns of the massive Milky Way satellites

S Hasselquist, CR Hayes, J Lian… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
survey has obtained high-resolution spectra for thousands of red giant stars distributed …

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 …

Detection of the Keplerian decline in the Milky Way rotation curve

Y Jiao, F Hammer, H Wang, J Wang, P Amram… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Our position inside the Galactic disc has previously prevented us from establishing an
accurate rotation curve (RC). The advent of Gaia and its third data release (Gaia DR3) made …

Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters: satellite star formation histories and quenching time-scales in a hierarchical Universe

AR Wetzel, JL Tinker, C Conroy… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Satellite galaxies in groups and clusters are more likely to have low star formation rates
(SFRs) and lie on the 'red sequence'than central ('field') galaxies. Using galaxy group/cluster …

The star formation histories of local group dwarf galaxies. I. Hubble space telescope/wide field planetary camera 2 observations

DR Weisz, AE Dolphin, ED Skillman… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present uniformly measured star formation histories (SFHs) of 40 Local Group (LG) dwarf
galaxies based on color–magnitude diagram (CMD) analysis from archival Hubble Space …

Third-epoch Magellanic Cloud proper motions. I. Hubble Space Telescope/WFC3 data and orbit implications

N Kallivayalil, RP Van der Marel, G Besla… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present proper motions for the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC)
based on three epochs of Hubble Space Telescope data, spanning a∼ 7 yr baseline, and …

The quenching of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in the reionization era

TM Brown, J Tumlinson, M Geha… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new constraints on the star formation histories of six ultra-faint dwarf galaxies:
Bootes I, Canes Venatici II, Coma Berenices, Hercules, Leo IV, and Ursa Major I. Our …