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In the standard Lambda-CDM paradigm, dwarf galaxies are expected to be dark-matter-rich, as baryonic feedback is thought to quickly drive gas out of their shallow potential wells and quench star formation at early epochs. Recent…

We use hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to show that it is possible to create, via tidal interactions, galaxies lacking dark matter in a dark matter dominated universe. We select dwarf galaxies from the NIHAO project, obtained in the…

The ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 in the NGC1052 group share several unusual properties: they both have large sizes, rich populations of overluminous and large globular clusters, and very low velocity dispersions indicating little or…

The ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC1052-DF2 has a very low velocity dispersion, indicating that it has little or no dark matter. Here we report the discovery of a second galaxy in this class, residing in the same group. NGC1052-DF4 closely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Pieter van Dokkum , Shany Danieli , Roberto Abraham , Charlie Conroy , Aaron J. Romanowsky

Recently, \cite{vanDokkum2018} have presented an important discovery of an ultra diffuse galaxy, NGC1052-DF2, with a dark matter content significantly less than predicted from its stellar mass alone. The analysis relies on measured radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-03 Adi Nusser

Recent observations of ultra-dwarf galaxy NGC1052-DF2 started an interesting discussion between dark matter hypothesis and modified gravity theories. Reported low velocity dispersion (< 10.5 km/s at 90% confidence level) derived from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-10 Tousif Islam , Koushik Dutta

A great challenge in present-day physics is to understand whether the observed internal dynamics of galaxies is due to dark matter matter or due to a modification of the law of gravity. Recently, van Dokkum et al. reported that the…

It was recently proposed that the globular cluster system of the very low surface-brightness galaxy NGC1052-DF2 is dynamically very cold, leading to the conclusion that this dwarf galaxy has little or no dark matter. Here, we show that a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Nicolas F. Martin , Michelle L. M. Collins , Nicolas Longeard , Erik Tollerud

Since the discovery of dark matter-deficient galaxies, numerous studies have shown that these exotic galaxies naturally occur in the $\Lambda$CDM model due to stronger tidal interactions. They are typically satellites, with stellar masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-20 Ana Mitrašinović , Majda Smole , Miroslav Micic

We explore the globular cluster population of NGC 1052-DF4, a dark matter deficient galaxy, using Bayesian inference to search for the presence of rotation. The existence of such a rotating component is relevant to the estimation of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Yuan Li , Brendon J. Brewer , Geraint F. Lewis

Recently van Dokkum et al. (2018b) reported that the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 (DF2) lacks dark matter if located at $20$ Mpc from Earth. In contrast, DF2 is a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy with a normal globular cluster population if it has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-09 Moritz Haslbauer , Indranil Banik , Pavel Kroupa , Konstantin Grishunin

Previous studies have shown that the large, diffuse galaxies NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4 both have populations of unusually luminous globular clusters as well as a very low dark matter content. Here we present newly-obtained deep Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Shany Danieli , Pieter van Dokkum , Roberto Abraham , Charlie Conroy , Andrew E. Dolphin , Aaron J. Romanowsky

The presence of unseen halos of ``dark matter'' has long been inferred from the high rotation speeds of gas and stars in the outer parts of spiral galaxies$^{1}$. The volume density of this dark matter decreases less quickly from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Penny D. Sackett , Heather L. Morrison , Paul Harding , Todd A. Boroson

Debris sent into the intergalactic medium during tidal collisions can tell us about several fundamental properties of galaxies, in particular their missing mass, both in the form of cosmological Dark Matter and so-called Lost Baryons. High…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Alain Duc , Frederic Bournaud , Elias Brinks

Thin stellar streams, such as those resulting from the tidal disruption of globular clusters, have long been known and used as probes of the gravitational potential of our Galaxy, both its visible and dark contents. In particular, the…

[Abridged...] We investigate the process of galaxy formation as can be observed in the only currently forming galaxies -- the so-called Tidal Dwarf Galaxies, hereafter TDGs -- through observations of the molecular gas detected via its CO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Braine , P. -A. Duc , U. Lisenfeld , V. Charmandaris , O. Vallejo , S. Leon , E. Brinks

Tidal ring galaxies are observed rarely in the local universe due to their intrinsically transient nature. The tidal ring structures are the result of strong interactions between gas-rich stellar disks and smaller galactic systems and do…

[KKS2000]04 (NGC1052-DF2) has become a controversial and well-studied galaxy after the claims suggesting a lack of dark matter and the presence of an anomalously bright globular cluster (GC) system around it. A precise determination of its…

We present a novel method to constrain the past collisional evolution of observed globular cluster (GC) systems, in particular their mass functions. We apply our method to a pair of galaxies hypothesized to have recently undergone an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Nathan Leigh , Giacomo Fragione

The amount of dark matter in the four galactic dwarf spheroidals with large mass-to-light ratios is investigated. Sextans has a cut-off radius which is equal to the expected tidal radius, assuming a high mass-to-light ratio. This satellite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Burkert