Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies

LV Sales, A Wetzel, A Fattahi - Nature Astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxies and their dark-matter haloes have posed several challenges to the dark energy
plus cold dark matter (Λ CDM) cosmological model. These discrepancies between …

Simulating groups and the intragroup medium: the surprisingly complex and rich middle ground between clusters and galaxies

BD Oppenheimer, A Babul, Y Bahé, IS Butsky… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting
individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics …

Constraints on dark matter properties from observations of Milky Way satellite galaxies

EO Nadler, A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, S Mau… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We perform a comprehensive study of Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies to constrain the
fundamental properties of dark matter (DM). This analysis fully incorporates inhomogeneities …

The saga survey. ii. building a statistical sample of satellite systems around milky way–like galaxies

YY Mao, M Geha, RH Wechsler, B Weiner… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the Stage II results from the ongoing Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA)
Survey. Upon completion, the SAGA Survey will spectroscopically identify satellite galaxies …

The Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) Survey: A Nearly Volume-limited Sample of Nearby Dwarf Satellite Systems

SG Carlsten, JE Greene, RL Beaton… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the final sample of the Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) survey, a
survey of the dwarf satellites of a nearly volume-limited sample of Milky Way (MW)− like …

Public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

A Wetzel, CC Hayward, RE Sanderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy
formation (available at http://flathub. flatironinstitute. org/fire) from the Feedback In Realistic …

FIREbox: simulating galaxies at high dynamic range in a cosmological volume

R Feldmann, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a suite of cosmological volume simulations to study the evolution of galaxies
as part of the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. FIREbox, the principal simulation …

Extinguishing the FIRE: environmental quenching of satellite galaxies around Milky Way-mass hosts in simulations

J Samuel, A Wetzel, I Santistevan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The star formation and gas content of satellite galaxies around the Milky Way (MW) and
Andromeda (M31) are depleted relative to more isolated galaxies in the Local Group (LG) at …

Kinematics of Antlia 2 and Crater 2 from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S 5)

AP Ji, SE Koposov, TS Li, D Erkal… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new spectroscopic observations of the diffuse Milky Way satellite galaxies Antlia
2 and Crater 2, taken as part of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S 5). The …

Overview and public data release of the augmented Auriga Project: cosmological simulations of dwarf and Milky Way-mass galaxies

RJJ Grand, F Fragkoudi, FA Gómez… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present an extended suite of the Auriga cosmological gravo-magnetohydrodynamical
'zoom-in'simulations of 40 Milky Way-mass haloes and 26 dwarf galaxy–mass haloes run …