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The low metallicity interstellar medium of dwarf galaxies gives a different picture in the far infrared(FIR)/submillimetre(submm)wavelengths than the more metal-rich galaxies. Excess emission is often found in the submm beginning at or…

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…

The dearth of dwarf galaxies in the local universe is hard to reconcile with the large number of low mass haloes expected within the concordance $\Lambda$CDM paradigm. In this paper we perform a systematic evaluation of the uncertainties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez , Aurel Schneider , Emmanouil Papastergis , Darren S. Reed , George Lake

The baryonic mass-size relation of galaxies links the total baryonic mass (stars plus gas) to the baryonic half-mass radius. In the first paper of this series, we showed that star-forming galaxies from the SPARC sample follow two distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 Zichen Hua , Lelli Federico , Enrico Di Teodoro , Stacy McGaugh , James Schombert

M dwarfs with masses 0.1 <= M/M_sol <= 0.3 are under increasing scrutiny because these fully convective stars pose interesting astrophysical questions regarding their magnetic activity and angular momentum history. They also afford the most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Jennifer G. Winters , David Charbonneau , Todd J. Henry , Jonathan M. Irwin , Wei-Chun Jao , Adric R. Riedel , Kenneth Slatten

We use the measured B band axial ratios of galaxies from an updated catalog of Local Volume galaxies to determine the intrinsic shape of dwarf irregular galaxies (de Vacouleurs' morphological types 8, 9 and 10). We find that the shapes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sambit Roychowdhury , Jayaram N. Chengalur , Igor D. Karachentsev , Elena I. Kaisina

It has been suggested that the internal dynamics of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) can be used to test whether or not ultralight axions with $m_a\sim 10^{-22}\text{eV}$ are a preferred dark matter candidate. However, comparisons to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , David J. E. Marsh , Jorge Peñarrubia , L. Arturo Ureña-López

We revisit the HI size-mass (D$_{\rm HI}$-M$_{\rm HI}$) relation of galaxies with a sample of more than 500 nearby galaxies covering over five orders of magnitude in HI mass and more than ten $B$-band magnitudes. The relation is remarkably…

Extreme helium stars are very rare low-mass supergiants in a late stage of evolution. They are probably contracting to become white dwarfs following a violent phase of evolution which caused them to become hydrogen-deficient giants,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-26 C. S. Jeffery W. -R. Hamann

We identify 814 discrete HI clouds in 40 dwarf irregular galaxies from the LITTLE THINGS survey using an automated cloud-finding algorithm. The cloud masses range from ~10^3 to 10^7 Msolar, have a surface density averaged over all of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-05 Deidre A. Hunter , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Clara L. Berger

In the standard cosmological model, dark matter drives the structure formation and constructs potential wells within which galaxies may form. The baryon fraction in dark halos can reach the universal value (15.7%) in massive clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-05 Qi Guo , Huijie Hu , Zheng Zheng , Shihong Liao , Wei Du , Shude Mao , Linhua Jiang , Jing Wang , Yingjie Peng , Liang Gao , Jie Wang , Hong Wu

We derive the stellar-to-halo specific angular momentum relation (SHSAMR) of galaxies at $z=0$ by combining i) the standard $\Lambda$CDM tidal torque theory ii) the observed relation between stellar mass and specific angular momentum (Fall…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-17 Lorenzo Posti , Gabriele Pezzulli , Filippo Fraternali , Enrico di Teodoro

The age of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy has begun, and black hole (BH) mergers detected by LIGO are providing novel constraints on massive star evolution. A major uncertainty in stellar theory is the angular momentum (AM) transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jim Fuller , Linhao Ma

Motivated by new kinematic data in the outer parts of early-type galaxies (ETGs), we re-examine angular momentum (AM) in all galaxy types. We present methods for estimating the specific AM j, focusing on ETGs, to derive relations between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Aaron J. Romanowsky , S. Michael Fall

Though smooth, extended spheroidal stellar outskirts have long been observed around nearby dwarf galaxies, it is unclear whether dwarfs generically host an extended stellar halo. We use imaging from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 Erin Kado-Fong , Jenny E. Greene , Song Huang , Rachael Beaton , Andy D. Goulding , Yutaka Komiyama

We present H$\alpha$ gas kinematics for 178 star-forming galaxies at z~2 from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field survey. We have developed models to interpret the kinematic measurements from fixed-angle multi-object spectroscopy, using…

The dynamics of dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies are observed to be dominated by dark matter (DM). Recently, the DM density distribution has been studied for 31 dIrrs. Their extended DM halo (Burket type profile) makes these objects good…

We present the results from a search for HI emission from a sample of newly discovered dwarf galaxies in the M81 group. HI is detected in three galaxies, all of which are classified as BCDs. The HI masses of these galaxies are ~ 10^6 M_sun,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sambit Roychowdhury , Jayaram N. Chengalur , Kristin Chiboucas , Igor D. Karachentsev , R. Brent Tully , Serafim S. Kaisin

We present a suite of FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of isolated field dwarf galaxies, all with masses of $M_\mathrm{halo} \approx 10^{10}\,$M$_\odot$ at $z=0$, across a range of dark matter models. For the first time, we compare…

A search for a correlation between the luminosities of the brightest stars and luminosities of their host galaxies was carried out on archived Hubble Space Telescope (HST) F606W or F555W (V) and F814W (I) images of about 150 nearby…