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Because of their low gravitational energies dwarf galaxies are greatly exposed to energetical influences by the interstellar medium, like e.g. stellar radiation, winds or explosions, or by their environment. While the metallicity depletion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Hensler , Andreas Rieschick , Joachim K"oppen

For the first time, systematic studies of dwarf galaxies are being conducted throughout the Local Volume, including the dwarf satellites of the nearby giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128). Given Centaurus As mass (roughly ten…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Sachi Weerasooriya , Mia Sauda Bovill , Matthew A. Taylor , Andrew J. Benson , Cameron Leahy

Using collisionless N-body simulations, we investigate the tidal evolution of late-type, rotationally supported dwarfs inside Milky Way-sized host galaxies. Our study focuses on a wide variety of dwarf orbital configurations and initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ewa L. Lokas , Stelios Kazantzidis , Lucio Mayer

We compare and contrast the stellar structures of isolated Local Group dwarf galaxies, as traced by their oldest stellar populations, with the satellite dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way and M31. All Local Group dwarfs with Mv < -6 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 Clare Higgs , Alan McConnachie

We use the \texttt{GRUMPY} galaxy formation model based on a suite of zoom-in, high-resolution, dissipationless $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) simulations of the Milky Way (MW) sized haloes to examine total matter density within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrey Kravtsov , Zewei Wu

Dwarf galaxies are uniquely sensitive to energetic feedback processes and are known to experience substantial mass and metal loss from their disk. Here, we investigate the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 64 isolated dwarf galaxies…

We use the highest-resolution EAGLE simulation, Recal-L025N0752, to study the properties and formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs). We identify 181 UDGs and find their properties closely match observations. The total masses of EAGLE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-01 Haonan Zheng , Shihong Liao , Liang Gao , Fangzhou Jiang

(Abridged) We use N-body simulations to study the evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) driven by galactic tides. We adopt a cosmologically-motivated model where dSphs are approximated by a King model embedded within an NFW halo.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jorge Penarrubia , Julio F. Navarro , Alan W. McConnachie

We perform high-resolution N-Body+SPH simulations of gas-rich dwarf galaxy satellites orbiting within a Milky Way-sized halo and study for the first time the combined effects of tides and ram pressure. The structure of the galaxy models and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lucio Mayer , Chiara Mastropietro , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore

We simulate the dynamical, chemical, and spectro-photometric evolution of dwarf and normal elliptical galaxies embedded in a dark matter halo, using a three-dimensional N-body/SPH simulation code. For the forming dwarf elliptical galaxies,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 Masao Mori , Yuzuru Yoshii , Ken'ichi Nomoto

The structure of a dwarf galaxy is an important probe into the effects of stellar feedback and environment. Using an unprecedented sample of 223 low-mass satellites from the ongoing Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) Survey, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Scott G. Carlsten , Jenny E. Greene , Johnny P. Greco , Rachael L. Beaton , Erin Kado-Fong

(Abridged) Many dwarf galaxies exhibit sub-Solar metallicities, with some star-to-star variation, despite often containing multiple generations of stars. The total metal content in these systems is much less than expected from the heavy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Chris Fragile , Stephen D. Murray , Peter Anninos , Douglas N. C. Lin

We combine the six high-resolution Aquarius dark matter simulations with a semi-analytic galaxy formation model to investigate the properties of the satellites of Milky Way-like galaxies. We find good correspondence with the observed…

We use a series of N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations and analytic arguments to show that the presence of an effective temperature floor in the interstellar medium at T_F ~ 10^4 K naturally explains the tendency for low-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 Tobias Kaufmann , Coral Wheeler , James S. Bullock

Galaxy environment plays a crucial role in quenching star formation in dwarf galaxies. In Milky Way (MW)-like environments, dwarf satellite quenching is primarily driven by ram pressure stripping (RPS), the direct removal of satellite gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Jingyao Zhu , Stephanie Tonnesen , Greg L. Bryan , Mary E. Putman

Dwarf galaxies provide a special environment due to their low mass, small size and generally low metal content. These attributes make them perfect laboratories for the interaction of massive stars with the interstellar medium on small and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik J. Bomans

We use a 0.040 < z < 0.085 sample of 37866 star-forming galaxies from the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the dependence of gas-phase chemical properties on stellar mass and environment. The local density,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Mouhcine , I. K. Baldry , S. P. Bamford

We study the statistics of dwarf galaxy populations as a function of environment in the cold dark matter (CDM) and warm dark matter (WDM) cosmogonies, using hydrodynamical simulations starting from initial conditions with matched phases but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-04 Tamar Meshveliani , Mark R. Lovell , Robert A. Crain , Joel Pfeffer

We use a simulation performed within the Constrained Local UniversE Simulation (CLUES) project to study a realistic Local Group-like object. We employ this group as a numerical laboratory for studying the evolution of the population of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jaroslaw Klimentowski , Ewa L. Lokas , Alexander Knebe , Stefan Gottloeber , Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero , Gustavo Yepes , Yehuda Hoffman

We present the first simulations of tidal stirring of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group carried out in a cosmological context. We use the ErisDARK simulation of a MW-sized galaxy to identify some of the most massive subhalos ($M_{vir} >…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Mihai Tomozeiu , Lucio Mayer , Thomas Quinn