The formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies in cored dark matter haloes through tidal stripping and heating

T Carleton, R Errani, M Cooper… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We propose that the ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) population represents a set of satellite
galaxies born in∼ 1010− 1011 M⊙ haloes, similar to field dwarfs, which suffer a dramatic …

Spatially resolved stellar kinematics of the ultra-diffuse galaxy dragonfly 44. I. Observations, kinematics, and cold dark matter halo fits

P Van Dokkum, A Wasserman, S Danieli… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present spatially resolved stellar kinematics of the well-studied ultra-diffuse galaxy
(UDG) Dragonfly 44, as determined from 25.3 hr of observations with the Keck Cosmic Web …

Origin and evolution of ultradiffuse galaxies in different environments

JA Benavides, LV Sales, MG Abadi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the formation of ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs) using the cosmological
hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 of the Illustris-TNG suite. We define UDGs as dwarf …

Robust H i kinematics of gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies: hints of a weak-feedback formation scenario

PE Mancera Piña, F Fraternali, KA Oman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Ultra diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields

FR Marleau, R Habas, M Poulain, PA Duc… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Recent advances in deep dedicated imaging surveys over the past decade have uncovered
a surprisingly large number of extremely faint low surface brightness galaxies with large …

An almost dark galaxy with the mass of the Small Magellanic Cloud

M Montes, I Trujillo, A Karunakaran… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Almost dark galaxies are objects that have eluded detection by traditional surveys such as
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The low surface brightness of these galaxies (μ r (0)> …

Spectroscopic characterization of the stellar content of ultra-diffuse galaxies

T Ruiz-Lara, MA Beasley… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the peculiar properties of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) via spectroscopic
analysis is a challenging task requiring very deep observations and exquisite data …

Gas-rich, Field Ultra-diffuse Galaxies Host Few Gobular Clusters

MG Jones, A Karunakaran, P Bennet… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present Hubble Space Telescope imaging of 14 gas-rich, low-surface-
brightness galaxies in the field at distances of 25–36 Mpc, with mean effective radii and g …

Discovery of a red ultra-diffuse galaxy in a nearby void based on its globular cluster luminosity function

J Román, MA Beasley, T Ruiz-Lara… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Distance determinations of extremely low-surface-brightness galaxies are expensive in
terms of spectroscopic time. Because of this, their distances are often inferred by associating …

Systematically Measuring Ultra-diffuse Galaxies (SMUDGes). I. Survey description and first results in the Coma galaxy cluster and environs

D Zaritsky, R Donnerstein, A Dey… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a homogeneous catalog of 275 large (effective radius≳ 5 farcs 3) ultra-diffuse
galaxy (UDG) candidates lying within an≈ 290 square degree region surrounding the Coma …