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 …

The DECam local volume exploration survey: Overview and first data release

A Drlica-Wagner, JL Carlin, DL Nidever… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) is a 126-night survey
program on the 4 m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in …

Evidence from the h3 survey that the stellar halo is entirely comprised of substructure

RP Naidu, C Conroy, A Bonaca… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In the ΛCDM paradigm, the Galactic stellar halo is predicted to harbor the accreted debris of
smaller systems. To identify these systems, the H3 Spectroscopic Survey, combined with …

z∼ 2–9 galaxies magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field clusters. II. Luminosity functions and constraints on a faint-end turnover

RJ Bouwens, G Illingworth, RS Ellis… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new determinations of the rest-UV luminosity functions (LFs) at z= 2–9 to
extremely low luminosities (>− 14 mag) from a sample of> 2500 lensed galaxies found …

Reconstructing the last major merger of the Milky Way with the H3 survey

RP Naidu, C Conroy, A Bonaca, D Zaritsky… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Several lines of evidence suggest that the Milky Way underwent a major merger at z∼ 2 with
the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) galaxy. Here we use H3 Survey data to argue that GSE …

The Frontier Fields: survey design and initial results

JM Lotz, A Koekemoer, D Coe, N Grogin… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
What are the faintest distant galaxies we can see with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
now, before the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope? This is the challenge taken …

Milky Way satellite census. I. The observational selection function for Milky Way satellites in DES Y3 and Pan-STARRS DR1

A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, S Mau… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a systematic search for ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxies using
data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Pan-STARRS1 (PS1). Together, DES and PS1 …

Directly observing the galaxies likely responsible for reionization

RC Livermore, SL Finkelstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new analysis of the Hubble Frontier Fields clusters Abell 2744 and MACS 0416
using wavelet decomposition to remove the cluster light, enabling the detection of highly …

Milky way satellite census. ii. galaxy–halo connection constraints including the impact of the large magellanic cloud

EO Nadler, RH Wechsler, K Bechtol… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The population of Milky Way (MW) satellites contains the faintest known galaxies
and thus provides essential insight into galaxy formation and dark matter microphysics. Here …

The extreme faint end of the UV luminosity function at z ∼ 6 through gravitational telescopes: a comprehensive assessment of strong lensing uncertainties

H Atek, J Richard, JP Kneib… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT With the Hubble Frontier Fields program, gravitational lensing has provided a
powerful way to extend the study of the ultraviolet luminosity function (LF) of galaxies at∼ 6 …