EDGE: The direct link between mass growth history and the extended stellar haloes of the faintest dwarf galaxies

A Goater, JI Read, NED Noël… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) are commonly found in close proximity to the Milky Way
and other massive spiral galaxies. As such, their projected stellar ellipticity and extended …

Forward-modelling the luminosity, distance, and size distributions of the Milky Way satellites

V Manwadkar, AV Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use GRUMPY, a simple regulator-type model for dwarf galaxy formation and evolution,
to forward model the dwarf galaxy satellite population of the Milky Way (MW) using the …

Orbital dynamics and histories of satellite galaxies around Milky Way–mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations

IB Santistevan, A Wetzel, E Tollerud… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The orbits of satellite galaxies encode rich information about their histories. We investigate
the orbital dynamics and histories of satellite galaxies around Milky Way (MW)-mass host …

Discovery of a red backsplash galaxy candidate near M81

KJ Casey, JP Greco, AHG Peter… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Understanding quenching mechanisms in low-mass galaxies is essential for understanding
galaxy evolution overall. In particular, isolated galaxies are important tools to help …

The compactness of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies: A new challenge?

Y Revaz - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
So far, numerical simulations of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) have failed to properly
reproduce the observed size–luminosity relation. In particular, no hydrodynamical simulation …

The cosmic UV background and the beginning and end of star formation in simulated field dwarf galaxies

M Pereira-Wilson, JF Navarro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We use the APOSTLE cosmological simulations to examine the role of the cosmic UV
background in regulating star formation (SF) in low-mass Lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) …

The Tucana dwarf spheroidal: a distant backsplash galaxy of M31?

IME Santos-Santos, JF Navarro… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We use the APOSTLE Local Group (LG) cosmological hydrosimulations to examine the
properties of 'backsplash'galaxies, ie dwarfs that were within the virial boundaries of the …

The quenched satellite population around Milky Way analogues

A Karunakaran, DJ Sand, MG Jones… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the relative fractions of quenched and star-forming satellite galaxies in the
Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) survey and Exploration of Local VolumE …

EDGE-INFERNO: Simulating every observable star in faint dwarf galaxies and their consequences for resolved-star photometric surveys

EP Andersson, MP Rey, A Pontzen… - The Astrophysical …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Interpretation of data from faint dwarf galaxies is made challenging by observations
limited to only the brightest stars. We present a major improvement to tackle this challenge …

A census of dwarf galaxy satellites around LMC-mass galaxy NGC 2403

JL Carlin, DJ Sand, B Mutlu-Pakdil… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first comprehensive census of the satellite population around a Large
Magellanic Cloud stellar-mass galaxy, as part of the Magellanic Analog Dwarf Companions …