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A significant fraction of high redshift star-forming disc galaxies are known to host giant clumps, whose nature and role in galaxy evolution are yet to be understood. In this work we first present a new method based on neural networks to…

Tidal debris streams from galaxy satellites can provide insight into the dark matter distribution in halos. This is because we have more information about stars in a debris structure than about a purely random population of stars: we know…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-30 Kathryn V. Johnston , Raymond G. Carlberg

Radiative feedback from stars and galaxies has been proposed as a potential solution to many of the tensions with simplistic galaxy formation models based on $\Lambda$CDM, such as the faint end of the UV luminosity function. The total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 David Sullivan , Ilian T. Iliev , Keri L. Dixon

The lack of tangible evidence for non-gravitational interactions between dark and visible sectors drives the need for exploring new avenues of inferring dark matter properties through purely gravitational probes. In particular, addressing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-23 Mihael Petac

The structure, extent, and mass of the Milky Way's (MW) dark matter (DM) halo are observationally challenging to determine due to our position within the Galaxy. To overcome this limitation, we study a combined sample of 127 MW analogs from…

We study the impact of warm dark matter (WDM) particle mass on galaxy properties using 1,024 state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the DREAMS project. We begin by using a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) coupled with a…

Recent observations show that spiral galaxies are surrounded by extended gaseous halos as predicted by the hierarchical structure formation scenario. The origin and nature of extraplanar gas is often unclear since the halo is continuously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Ben Bekhti , B. Winkel , P. Richter , J. Kerp , U. Klein

We demonstrate the use of deep network to learn the distribution of data from state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project. To this end, we train a generative adversarial network to generate images composed of three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-25 Sambatra Andrianomena , Sultan Hassan , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We discuss a novel approach to "weighing" the Milky Way dark matter halo, one that combines the latest samples of halo stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with state-of-the-art numerical simulations of Milky Way analogs.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Valery Rashkov , Annalisa Pillepich , Alis J. Deason , Piero Madau , Constance M. Rockosi , Javiera Guedes , Lucio Mayer

Recent measurements suggest that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may weigh as much as 25\% of the Milky Way. In this work we explore how such a large satellite affects mass estimates of the Milky Way based on equilibrium modelling of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov , Daniel L. Parkin

We present a hierarchical Bayesian method for estimating the total mass and mass profile of the Milky Way Galaxy. The new hierarchical Bayesian approach further improves the framework presented by Eadie, Harris, & Widrow (2015) and Eadie &…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Gwendolyn Eadie , Aaron Springford , William Harris

The Milky Way's satellites provide unique information about the density of the Galactic halo at large radii. The inclusion of even a few rather inaccurate proper motions resolves an ambiguity in older mass estimates in favour of higher…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Binney

Studying our Galaxy, the Milky Way (MW), gives us a close-up view of the interplay between cosmology, dark matter, and galaxy formation. In the next decade our understanding of the MW's dynamics, stellar populations, and structure will…

We show that the mass of a dark matter halo can be inferred from the dynamical status of its satellite galaxies. Using 9 dark-matter simulations of halos like the Milky Way (MW), we find that the present-day substructures in each halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Zhao-Zhou Li , Y. P. Jing , Yong-Zhong Qian , Zhen Yuan , Dong-Hai Zhao

We present a maximum-likelihood weak lensing analysis of the mass distribution in optically selected spectroscopic Galaxy Groups (G$^3$Cv5) in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, using background Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

We obtain predictions for the properties of cold dark matter annihilation radiation using high resolution hydrodynamic zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies (APOSTLE project) carried out as part of the "Evolution and…

Using 3D hydrodynamic calculations we simulate formation of molecular clouds in the Galaxy. The simulations take into account molecular hydrogen chemical kinetics, cooling and heating processes. Comprehensive gravitational potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. A. Khoperskov , E. O. Vasiliev , A. M. Sobolev , A. V. Khoperskov

In the early universe, substantial relative "stream" velocities between the gas and dark matter arise due to radiation pressure and persist after recombination. To asses the impact of these velocities on high-redshift structure formation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-28 Mark L. A. Richardson , Evan Scannapieco , Robert J. Thacker

Many of the satellites of galactic-mass systems such as the Miky Way, Andromeda and Centaurus A show evidence of coherent motions to a larger extent than most of the systems predicted by the standard cosmological model. It is an open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-22 Qing Gu , Qi Guo , Marius Cautun , Shi Shao , Wenxiang Pei , Wenting Wang , Liang Gao , Jie Wang