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Dark Matter (DM) is an ingredient essential to the current cosmological concordance model. It provides the gravitational pull needed for the baryons to form galaxies. Therefore, the existence of galaxies without DM is both disquieting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-12 J. Sanchez Almeida , M. Filho

The location of dark-matter free, tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs) in the baryonic Tully Fisher (bTF) diagram has been used to test cosmological scenarios, leading to various and controversial results. Using new high-resolution 3D spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 H. Flores , F. Hammer , S. Fouquet , M. Puech , P. Kroupa , Y. Yang , M. Pawlowski

To investigate the origin of elevated globular cluster abundances observed around Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs), we simulate globular cluster populations hosted by UDGs formed through tidal heating. Specifically, globular cluster (GC)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-11 Timothy Carleton , Yicheng Guo , Ferah Munshi , Michael Tremmel , Anna Wright

It has been suggested that a trail of diffuse galaxies, including two dark matter deficient galaxies (DMDGs), in the vicinity of NGC1052 formed because of a high-speed collision between two gas-rich dwarf galaxies, one bound to NGC1052 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Go Ogiya , Frank C. van den Bosch , Andreas Burkert , Xi Kang

Recent advances in deep dedicated imaging surveys over the past decade have uncovered a surprisingly large number of extremely faint low surface brightness galaxies with large physical sizes called ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in clusters…

Low-mass dwarf galaxies ($M_{\rm vir} \lesssim 10^9\rm\ M_\odot$) are fundamental cosmological building blocks, yet the physical processes driving their structural diversity remain poorly understood. Recent numerical simulations have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Chi-Hong Lin , Michiko S Fujii , Takayuki R Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai

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

We present the first set of cosmological baryonic zoom-in simulations of galaxies including dissipative self-interacting dark matter (dSIDM). These simulations utilize the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Xuejian Shen , Philip F. Hopkins , Lina Necib , Fangzhou Jiang , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Andrew Wetzel

We use hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to test the differences between cold and self-interacting dark matter models (CDM and SIDM) in the mass range of massive galaxies ($10^{12}M_{\odot}h^{-1}<M<10^{13.5}M_{\odot}h^{-1}$). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Claudio Mastromarino , Giulia Despali , Lauro Moscardini , Andrew Robertson , Massimo Meneghetti , Matteo Maturi

The existence of ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies highlights the need to push our theoretical understanding of galaxies to extremely low mass. We examine the formation of UFDs by twice running a fully cosmological simulations of dwarf…

We investigate the co-evolution of the stellar and dark matter mass of satellite galaxies using the COLIBRE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with subhaloes resolved by the history-based HBT-HERONS subhalo finder. We identify a…

The potential of galaxies to host habitable planets is central to astrobiology, tightly linked to galaxy-scale evolution and cosmological processes. Using IllustrisTNG, we revisit the proposed local peak in the mass-metallicity relation for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Ana Mitrašinović , Branislav Vukotić , Teodora Žižak , Miroslav Micic , Milan M. Ćirković

We define a Tidal Dwarf Galaxy (TDG) as a self-gravitating entity of dwarf-galaxy mass built from tidal material expelled during interactions. We then summarize our findings on broad-band imaging and spectroscopy of a sample of TDG…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter M. Weilbacher , Pierre-Alain Duc

We use the rotation curves of a sample of dark matter dominated dwarf and low-surface brightness (LSB) late-type galaxies to study their radial mass distributions. We find that the shape of the rotation curves is remarkably similar for all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly A. Klypin , James S. Bullock , Joel R. Primack

The cold dark matter (CDM) model predicts galaxies have 100 times more dark matter mass than stars. Nevertheless, recent observations report the existence of dark-matter-deficient galaxies with less dark matter than expected. To solve this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Koki Otaki , Masao Mori

We show that a significant correlation (up to 5sigma) emerges between the bulge index, defined to be larger for larger bulge/disk ratio, in spiral galaxies with similar luminosities in the Galaxy Zoo 2 of SDSS and the number of tidal-dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Martin Lopez-Corredoira , Pavel Kroupa

In dwarf galaxy models, outflows expel metal-enriched interstellar medium (ISM) into the circumgalactic medium (CGM) to reproduce their observed low metallicities, but measurements of dwarf CGM properties are scarce. We present a study of…

According to the now strongly supported concordance $\Lambda$CDM model, galaxies may be grossly described as a luminous component embedded in a dark matter halo. The density profile of these mass dominating haloes may be determined by N -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Del Popolo , V. F. Cardone

It remains challenging to systematically survey nearby diffuse dwarf galaxies and address the formation mechanism of this population distinguishing from regular ones. We carry out a pilot search for these galaxies in the COSMOS field using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-13 Dongdong Shi , XianZhong Zheng , Zhizheng Pan , Yu Luo , Hongxia Deng , Qunzhi Hua , Xinyu Luo , Qiming Wu

It has recently been proposed that the dwarf spheroidal galaxies located in the Local Group disks of satellites (DoSs) may be tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs) born in a major merger at least 5 Gyr ago. Whether TDGs can live that long is still…