Modelling the outskirts of galaxies in a cosmological context
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2017-04-11 v1
Abstract
Current data broadly support trends of galaxy surface brightness profile amplitude and shape with total stellar mass predicted by state-of-the-art Lambda-CDM cosmological simulations, although recent results show signs of interesting discrepancies, particularly for galaxies less massive than the Milky Way. Here I discuss how perhaps the largest contribution to such discrepancies can be inferred almost directly from how well a given model agrees with the observed present-day galaxy stellar mass function.
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@article{arxiv.1704.02614,
title = {Modelling the outskirts of galaxies in a cosmological context},
author = {Andrew P. Cooper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02614},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 321, "Formation and evolution of galaxy outskirts", March 2016, Eds. A. Gil de Paz, J. C. Lee & J. H. Knapen, Cambridge University Press