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A fundamental prediction of the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmology is the centrally divergent cuspy density profile of dark matter haloes. Density cusps render CDM haloes resilient to tides, and protect dwarf galaxies embedded in them…

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Observations reveal a striking diversity in dwarf galaxy structures, spanning a wide range of masses, inner density slopes, shapes, and sizes. Tidal stripping may play a crucial role in shaping the evolution of these galaxies, yet the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-26 Bradley Arias , Nicole E. Drakos , James E. Taylor

The shallow faint-end slope of the galaxy mass function is usually reproduced in $\Lambda$CDM galaxy formation models by assuming that the fraction of baryons that turns into stars drops steeply with decreasing halo mass and essentially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-16 Azadeh Fattahi , Julio F. Navarro , Carlos S. Frenk , Kyle Oman , Till Sawala , Matthieu Schaller

Using high-resolution N-body simulations we study the stellar properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies resulting from the tidally induced morphological transformation of disky dwarfs on a cosmologically motivated eccentric orbit around the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Ewa L. Lokas , Stelios Kazantzidis , Jaroslaw Klimentowski , Lucio Mayer , Simone Callegari

We use high-resolution N-body simulations to follow the formation and evolution of tidal streams associated to dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). The dSph models are embedded in dark matter (DM) haloes with either a centrally-divergent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-22 Raphaël Errani , Jorge Peñarrubia , Giuseppe Tormen

Recent observations suggest that Carina and other nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies are surrounded by unbound stars tidally stripped by the Milky Way. We run high-resolution N-Body simulations of dwarf galaxies orbiting within the Milky Way…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucio Mayer , Ben Moore , Thomas Quinn , Fabio Governato , Joachim Stadel

We investigate the evolution of substructure in cold dark matter halos using N-body simulations of tidal stripping of substructure halos (subhalos) within a static host potential. We find that halos modeled following the Navarro, Frenk &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric Hayashi , Julio F. Navarro , James E. Taylor , Joachim Stadel , Thomas Quinn

(Abridged) We use N-body simulations to study the effects that a divergent (i.e. "cuspy") dark matter (DM) profile introduces on the tidal evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). Our models assume cosmologically-motivated initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jorge Penarrubia , Andrew J. Benson , Matthew G. Walker , Gerard Gilmore , Alan McConnachie , Lucio Mayer

We use N-body simulations to study the effects of tides on the kinematical structure of satellite galaxies orbiting a Milky Way-like potential. Our work is motivated by observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group, for which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Laura V. Sales , Amina Helmi , Giuseppina Battaglia

We present a phenomenological description of the properties of tidal tails forming around dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. For this purpose we use collisionless N-body simulations of dwarfs initially composed of a disk embedded in an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-12 Ewa L. Lokas , Grzegorz Gajda , Stelios Kazantzidis

We present results from high-resolution N-Body/SPH simulations of rotationally supported dwarf irregular galaxies moving on bound orbits in the massive dark matter halo of the Milky Way.The dwarf models span a range in disk surface density…

We use N-body simulations to study the evolution of cuspy cold dark matter (CDM) halos in the gravitational potential of a massive host. Tidal mass losses reshape CDM halos, leaving behind bound remnants whose characteristic densities are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-03 Raphaël Errani , Julio F. Navarro

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 clumpiness of dark matter on sub-kpc scales is highly sensitive to the tidal evolution and survival of subhaloes. In agreement with previous studies, we show that N-body realisations of cold dark matter subhaloes with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-16 Raphaël Errani , Jorge Peñarrubia

The "too big to fail" problem is revisited by studying the tidal evolution of populations of dwarf satellites with different density profiles. The high resolution cosmological $\rm \Lambda CDM$ "ErisMod" set of simulations is used. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Mihai Tomozeiu , Lucio Mayer , Thomas Quinn

We conduct high-resolution collisionless N-body simulations to investigate the tidal evolution of dwarf galaxies on an eccentric orbit in the Milky Way (MW) potential. The dwarfs originally consist of a low surface brightness stellar disk…

(Abridged) We use N-body simulations to study the evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) driven by galactic tides. We adopt a cosmologically-motivated model where dSphs are approximated by a King model embedded within an NFW halo.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jorge Penarrubia , Julio F. Navarro , Alan W. McConnachie

Satellite galaxies endure powerful environmental tidal forces that drive mass stripping of their outer regions. Consequently, satellites located in central regions of galaxy clusters or groups, where the tidal field is strongest, are…

We use cosmological N-body simulations from the Aquarius Project to study the tidal effects of a dark matter halo on the shape and orientation of its substructure. Although tides are often assumed to enhance asphericity and to stretch…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Christopher Barber , Else Starkenburg , Julio F. Navarro , Alan W. McConnachie

We develop an explicit model for the formation of the stellar halo from tidally disrupted, accreted dwarf satellites in the cold dark matter (CDM) framework, focusing on predictions testable with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James S. Bullock , Andrey V. Kravtsov , David H. Weinberg
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