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Dwarf Irregular galaxies (dIrrs) are the smallest stellar systems with extended HI discs. The study of the kinematics of such discs is a powerful tool to estimate the total matter distribution at these very small scales. In this work, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Giuliano Iorio , Filippo Fraternali , Carlo Nipoti , Enrico Di Teodoro , Justin I. Read , Giuseppina Battaglia

The Survey of HI in Extremely Low-mass Dwarfs (SHIELD) is an on-going multi-wavelength program to characterize the gas, star formation, and evolution in gas-rich, very low-mass galaxies that populate the faint end of the galaxy luminosity…

We present a Far-Ultraviolet (FUV) study of sixteen star-forming dwarf galaxies (SFDGs) using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT). Morphologically, SFDGs are classified as dwarf spirals, dwarf irregulars, and blue compact dwarfs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-02 S Amrutha , Mousumi Das , Jyoti Yadav

New observations of 16 dwarf elliptical galaxies in the Virgo Cluster indicate that at least seven dEs have significant velocity gradients along their optical major axis, with typical rotation amplitudes of 20-30 km/s. Of the remaining nine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. van Zee , E. D. Skillman , M. P. Haynes

We quantify departures from hydrodynamical and centrifugal equilibrium in the gas discs of low-mass ($10^{10.75}<M_\mathrm{200c}/\mathrm{M}_\odot<10^{11}$) galaxies from the COLIBRE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We evaluate the…

The origin of the observed steep rotation curves of blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDs) remains largely unexplained by theoretical models of BCD formation. We therefore investigate the rotation curves in BCDs formed from mergers between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-14 A. Watts , K. Bekki

We present deep $BVI$ observations of the dwarf irregular galaxy UKS1927-177 in Sagittarius. Statistically cleaned $V$, $(B-I)$ CMDs clearly display the key evolutionary features in this galaxy. Previously detected C stars are located in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Momany , E. V. Held , I. Saviane , L. Rizzi

Dwarf galaxies are dark matter-dominated systems that are sensitive to feedback and display a diversity of baryonic morphologies. This makes them excellent probes for understanding dark matter and galaxy evolution. This work investigates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-03 Robel Geda , Akaxia Cruz , Anna C. Wright , Jenny E. Greene , Alyson Brooks , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley , Ben Keller

After summarizing the characteristics of different types of dwarf galaxies I briefly review our current state of knowledge of dwarf galaxy evolution in the Local Group, for which we now have a fairly detailed although by no means…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eva K. Grebel

Dwarf galaxies are the least massive, most abundant, and most widely distributed type of galaxies. Hence, they are key to testing theories of galaxy and Universe evolution. Dwarf galaxies sufficiently close to have their gas and stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 Francesca Annibali , Monica Tosi

The ubiquity of star-forming dwarf galaxies (SFDG) in the local Universe allows us to trace their evolution in all type of environments, from voids to rich clusters. SFDGs in low-density regions are still assembling their mass, they often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Grossi

The current Lambda CDM cosmological model predicts that galaxy evolution proceeds more slowly in lower density environments, suggesting that voids are a prime location to search for relatively pristine galaxies that are representative of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 K. Kreckel , K. Croxall , B. Groves , R. van de Weygaert , R. W. Pogge

Irregular (Irr) galaxies are gas-rich objects with recent or ongoing star formation. In absence of spiral density waves, star formation occurs largely stochastically. The scattered star-forming regions tend to be long-lived and migrate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eva K. Grebel

Virgo is a dynamically young galaxy cluster with substructure in its spatial and kinematic distribution. Here, we simultaneously study the phase-space distribution and the main characteristics of Virgo's galaxies, particularly its most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-21 Thorsten Lisker , Rukmani Vijayaraghavan , Joachim Janz , John S. Gallagher , Christoph Engler , Linda Urich

We present results of high resolution hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies. Our simulations start from cosmological initial conditions at high redshift. They include metal-dependent cooling, star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Till Sawala , Cecilia Scannapieco , Umberto Maio , Simon D. M. White

It has long been speculated that Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies (BCDs) are formed through the interaction between low-mass gas-rich galaxies, but a few candidates of such systems have been studied in detail. We study a sample of compact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-15 Daya Nidhi Chhatkuli , Sanjaya Paudel , Rajesh Kumar Bachchan , Binil Aryal , Jaewon Yoo

Morphological classification of dwarf galaxies into early and late type, though can account for some of their origin and characteristics but does not help to study their formation mechanism. So an objective classification using Principal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Tanuka Chattopadhyay , M. E. Sharina , Pradip Karmakar

We present surface photometry and metallicity measurements for 104 nearby dwarf galaxies imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. In addition, we carried out…

To explore the properties of extreme outer stellar disks, we obtained ultra-deep V and GALEX UV images of 4 dwarf irregular galaxies and one Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy and ultra-deep B images of 3 of these. Our V-band surface photometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Deidre A. Hunter , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Se-Heon Oh , Ed Anderson , Tyler E. Nordgren , Philip Massey , Nick Wilsey , Malanka Riabokin

We have collected a large body of NIR (H band), UV (2000 A) and Halpha measurements of late-type galaxies. These are used, jointly with spectral evolutionary synthesis models, to study the initial mass function (IMF) in the mass range m > 2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 Alessandro Boselli , Giuseppe Gavazzi , Jose Donas , Marco Scodeggio