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We present the detection of a large population of ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in two massive galaxy clusters, Abell S1063 at $z=0.348$ and Abell 2744 at $z=0.308$, based on F814W and F105W images in the Hubble Frontier Fields Program. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-09 Myung Gyoon Lee , Jisu Kang , Jeong Hwan Lee , In Sung Jang

Taking advantage of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe82 data, we have explored the spatial distribution of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) within an area of 8$\times$8 Mpc$^2$ centred around the galaxy cluster Abell 168 ($z$ = 0.045). This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-21 Javier Román , Ignacio Trujillo

A full understanding of how unusually large "Ultra Diffuse Galaxies" (UDGs) fit into our conventional understanding of dwarf galaxies remains elusive, despite the large number of objects identified locally. A natural extension of UDG…

Large diffuse galaxies are hard to find, but understanding the environments where they live, their numbers, and ultimately their origins, is of intense interest and importance for galaxy formation and evolution. Using Subaru's Hyper…

We measure NUV aperture magnitudes from {\sl GALEX} images for 258 ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates drawn from the initial SMUDGes survey of $\sim 300$ square degrees surrounding, and including, the Coma galaxy cluster. For the vast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-15 Pranjal RS , Dennis Zaritsky , Richard Donnerstein , Kristine Spekkens

Observations of nearby galaxy clusters at low surface brightness have identified galaxies with low luminosities, but sizes as large as L* galaxies, leading them to be dubbed "ultra-diffuse galaxies" (UDGs). The survival of UDGs in dense…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 Eric W. Peng , Sungsoon Lim

We present neutral hydrogen (HI) observations using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) of 70 optically-detected UDG candidates in the Coma region from the Systematically Measuring Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies survey (SMUDGes). We…

We study the origins of 122 ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the {\sc RomulusC} zoom-in cosmological simulation of a galaxy cluster (M$_{200} = 1.15\times10^{14}$ M$_{\odot}$), one of the only such simulations capable of resolving the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 Michael Tremmel , Anna C. Wright , Alyson M. Brooks , Ferah Munshi , Daisuke Nagai , Thomas R. Quinn

We propose that the Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy (UDG) population represents a set of satellite galaxies born in $\sim10^{10}-10^{11}$ M$_\odot$ halos, similar to field dwarfs, which suffer a dramatic reduction in surface brightness due to tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Timothy Carleton , Raphaël Errani , Michael Cooper , Manoj Kaplinghat , Jorge Peñarrubia , Yicheng Guo

Understanding the peculiar properties of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) via spectroscopic analysis is a challenging task requiring very deep observations and exquisite data reduction. In this work we perform one of the most complete…

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

Some Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) appear to host exceptionally rich globular cluster (GC) systems compared to normal galaxies of the same stellar mass. After re-examing these claims, we focus on a small sample of UDGs from the literature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Duncan A. Forbes , Jonah Gannon

It has been 10 years since the initial discovery of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster and the revelation that large, low surface brightness galaxies may constitute a greater fraction of galaxies than first thought. This left…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 Jonah S. Gannon , Anna Ferré-Mateu , Duncan A. Forbes

We report the discovery of two ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) which show clear evidence for association with tidal material and interaction with a larger galaxy halo, found during a search of the Wide portion of the Canada-France-Hawaii…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Paul Bennet , David J. Sand , Dennis Zaritsky , Denija Crnojević , Kristine Spekkens , Ananthan Karunakaran

We present the results of the spectroscopic and photometric follow-up of two field galaxies that were selected as possible stellar counterparts of local high velocity clouds. Our analysis shows that the two systems are distant (D>20 Mpc)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 M. Bellazzini , V. Belokurov , L. Magrini , F. Fraternali , V. Testa , G. Beccari , A. Marchetti , R. Carini

Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) were serendipitously discovered by spectroscopic surveys in the Fornax cluster twenty years ago. Nowadays, it is commonly accepted that many bright UCDs are the nuclei of galaxies that have been stripped.…

We present a photometric study of the dwarf galaxy population in the low to moderate density environments of the MATLAS (Mass Assembly of early-Type gaLAxies with their fine Structures) deep imaging survey. The sample consists of 2210…

Ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have the sizes of giant galaxies but the luminosities of dwarfs. A key to understanding their origins comes from their total masses, but their low surface brightnesses ($\mu(V) \geq$ 25.0) generally prohibit…

Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs), a type of large Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies with particularly large effective radii (r_eff > 1.5 kpc), are now routinely studied in the local (z<0.1) universe. While they are found to be abundant in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Aisha Bachmann , Remco F. J. van der Burg , Jérémy Fensch , Gabriel Brammer , Adam Muzzin

We report the discovery of 158 previously undetected dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster central regions using a deep coadded $u, g$ and $i$-band image obtained with the DECam wide-field camera mounted on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at…