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We used the Revised Flat Galaxy Catalog (RFGC) to select 817 ultra-flat (UF) edge-on disk galaxies with blue and red apparent axial ratios of $(a/b)_B > 10.0$ and $(a/b)_R > 8.5$. The sample covering the whole sky, except the Milky Way…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-01 I. D. Karachentsev , V. E. Karachentseva , Yu. N. Kudrya

Ultra compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) have similar properties as massive globular clusters or the nuclei of nucleated galaxies. Recent observations suggesting a high dark matter content and a steep spatial distribution within groups and…

Despite the insights gained in the last few years, our knowledge about the formation and evolution scenario for the spheroid-dominated galaxies is still incomplete. New and more powerful cosmological simulations have been developed that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 M. S. Rosito , P. B. Tissera , S. E. Pedrosa , Y. Rosas-Guevara

We examine the effects of galaxy outflows on the formation of dwarf galaxies in numerical simulations of the high-redshift Universe. Using a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic code, we conduct two detailed simulations of a (5.2 Mpc/h)^3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evan Scannapieco , Robert J. Thacker , Marc Davis

We use Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy to confirm the cluster membership of 16 ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster, bringing the total number of spectroscopically con- firmed UDGs to 24. We also identify a new cluster background UDG.…

Many ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have been discovered in the Coma cluster, and there is evidence that some, notably Dragonfly 44, have Milky Way-like dynamical masses despite dwarf-like stellar masses. We used X-ray, UV, and optical data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Chris H. Lee , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Elena Gallo

We have determined the amount of stellar mass segregation in over 50 globular clusters and ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates based on deep HST and ground-based photometry. We find that the amount of mass segregation in globular clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Holger Baumgardt , Johannes Faller , Nicholas Meinhold , Chandler McGovern-Greco , Michael Hilker

We present the e-TidalGCs Project which aims at modeling and predicting the extra-tidal features surrounding all Galactic globular clusters for which 6D phase space information, masses and sizes are available (currently 159 globular…

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

The origin of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) is not yet clear. One possible formation path of UCDs is the threshing of a nucleated elliptical dwarf galaxy (dE, N), however, it remains unclear how such massive nuclear stellar systems…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Morgan Goodman , Kenji Bekki

Studies of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies in nearby clusters have revealed a sub-population of extremely diffuse galaxies with central surface brightness $\mu_{0,g'}$ > 24 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ and effective radius between 1.5 kpc <…

The ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 has a low dark matter content and hosts a very unusual globular cluster (GC) population, with a median luminosity $\sim4$ times higher than in most galaxies and containing about 5~per~cent of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-04 Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Benjamin W. Keller , Marta Reina-Campos

We study the gas kinematics of a sample of six isolated gas-rich low surface brightness galaxies, of the class called ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs). These galaxies have recently been shown to be outliers from the baryonic Tully-Fisher…

We study the formation of planes of dwarf galaxies around Milky Way (MW)-mass haloes in the EAGLE galaxy formation simulation. We focus on satellite systems similar to the one in the MW: spatially thin or with a large fraction of members…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-08 Shi Shao , Marius Cautun , Carlos S. Frenk

We present a spectroscopic study of the ``Disco Ball'' (SMDG0038365-064207), a rotationally-supported, red-sequence, ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) with a nuclear star cluster (NSC), multiple stellar clusters, and active star-forming regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-15 Donghyeon J. Khim , Dennis Zaritsky , Loraine Sandoval Ascencio , M. C. Cooper , Richard Donnerstein

Ultra Compact Dwarf Galaxies (UCDs) and dwarf galaxy nuclei have many common properties, such as internal velocity dispersions and colour-magnitude trends, suggesting tidally stripped dwarf galaxies as a possible UCD origin. However, UCDs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Joel Pfeffer , Holger Baumgardt

Advances on the formation and survival of the so-called Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are reviewed. The understanding on how objects of the mass of dwarf galaxies may form in debris of galactic collisions has recently benefited from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Pierre-Alain Duc

Galaxy evolution can be studied observationally by linking progenitor and descendant galaxies through an evolving cumulative number density selection. This procedure can reproduce the expected evolution of the median stellar mass from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Bart Clauwens , Allison Hill , Marijn Franx , Joop Schaye

A central question regarding Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) is whether they are a separate category to Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies, or just their natural continuation towards low stellar masses. In this letter, we show that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Chris B. Brook , Arianna Di Cintio , Andrea V. Maccio , Marvin Blank

We use $\Lambda$CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to explore the kinematics of gaseous discs in late-type dwarf galaxies. We create high-resolution 21-cm 'observations' of simulated dwarfs produced in two variations of the EAGLE…