scholarly journals Delayed Stellar Mass Assembly in the Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxy KDG 215

2018 ◽  
Vol 864 (1) ◽  
pp. L14 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Cannon ◽  
Zili Shen ◽  
Kristen B. W. McQuinn ◽  
Joshua Bartz ◽  
Lilly Bralts-Kelly ◽  
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1999 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 253-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Salzer ◽  
Stuart A. Norton

AbstractWe analyze deep CCD images of nearby Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies in an attempt to understand the nature of the progenitors which are hosting the current burst of star formation. In particular, we ask whether BCDs are hosted by normal or low-surface-brightness dI galaxies. We conclude that BCDs are in fact hosted by gas-rich galaxies which populate the extreme high-central-mass-density end of the dwarf galaxy distribution. Such galaxies are predisposed to having numerous strong bursts of star formation in their central regions. In this picture, BCDs can only occur in the minority of dwarf galaxies, rather than being a common phase experienced by all gas-rich dwarfs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 494 (2) ◽  
pp. 1848-1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura V Sales ◽  
Julio F Navarro ◽  
Louis Peñafiel ◽  
Eric W Peng ◽  
Sungsoon Lim ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT We use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation to study the formation of ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs) in galaxy clusters. We supplement the simulations with a realistic mass–size relation for galaxies at the time of infall into the cluster, as well as an analytical model to describe the tidally induced evolution of their stellar mass, velocity dispersion, and size. The model assumes ‘cuspy’ NFW haloes and, contrary to recent claims, has no difficulty reproducing the observed number of UDGs in clusters. Our results further suggest that the UDG population consists of a mixture of ‘normal’ low surface brightness galaxies such as those found in the field (‘born’ UDGs, or B-UDGs), as well as a distinct population that owe their large size and low surface brightness to the effects of cluster tides (‘tidal’, or T-UDGs). The simulations indicate that T-UDGs entered the cluster earlier and should be more prevalent than B-UDGs near the cluster centres. T-UDGs should also have, at given stellar mass, lower velocity dispersion, higher metallicities, and lower dark matter content than B-UDGs. Our results suggest that systems like DF-44 are consistent with having been born as UDGs, while others such as DF2, DF4, and VLSB-D are possibly extreme T-UDG examples.


2004 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 172-173
Author(s):  
Frédéric S. Masset ◽  
Martin Bureau

NGC 2915 is a blue compact dwarf galaxy embedded in an extended, low surface brightness HI disk with a bar and two-armed spiral structure. Common mechanisms are unable to explain those patterns and disk dark matter or a rotating triaxial dark halo were proposed as alternatives. Hydrodynamical simulations were run for each case and compared to observations using customized column density and kinematic constraints. The spiral structure can be accounted for by an unseen bar or triaxial halo, but the large bar mass or halo pattern frequency required make it unlikely that the spiral is driven by an external perturber. In particular, the spin parameter lambda is much higher than predicted by current CDM structure formation scenarios. Massive disk models show that when the gas surface density is scaled up by a factor of about 10, the disk develops a spiral structure matching the observed one in perturbed density as well as velocity. This suggests that the disk of NGC 2915 contains much more mass than is visible tightly linked to the neutral hydrogen. A classic (quasi-)spherical halo is nevertheless still required, as increasing the disk mass further to fit the circular velocity curve would make the disk violently unstable


1999 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 224-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Walter ◽  
E. Brinks

AbstractWe present high resolution VLA-observations of the nearby Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxy DDO 47. This object shows many hole-like structures in its neutral interstellar medium. The majority of the detected H I-shells are found to be expanding. Their origin is therefore believed to be due to stellar winds of the most massive stars and their subsequent supernova (SN type II) explosions within regions of recent star formation (SF). Current SF in DDO 47 is predominantly present on the rims of the HI-shells suggesting propagating SF. At a projected distance of 20 kpc (adopting a distance to DDO 47 of 4 Mpc), a companion galaxy was detected at almost the same systemic velocity (DDO 47 B). A search for an optical identification suggests that CGCG 087-033 is the optical counterpart of the companion. A preliminary dynamical analysis based on DDO 47’s rotation curve yields that it is dark matter dominated (about 80% of its dynamical mass is in some non-visible form). A simple mass model suggests that DDO 47 is one of the ‘thickest’ dwarf galaxies studied so far.


2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan C. Keller

AbstractThis study presents a tomographic survey of a subset of the outer halo (10–40 kpc) drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6. Halo substructure on spatial scales of >3 degrees is revealed as an excess in the local density of sub-giant stars. With an appropriate assumption of a model stellar isochrone it is possible for us to then derive distances to the sub-giant population. We describe three new candidate halo substructures; the 160- and 180-degree over-densities (at distances of 17 and 19 kpc respectively and radii of 1.3 and 1.5 kpc respectively) and an extended feature at 28 kpc that covers at least 162 deg2, the Virgo Equatorial Stream. In addition, we recover the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr) leading-arm material and the Virgo Over-Density.The derived distances, together with the number of sub-giant stars associated with each substructure, enables us to derive the integrated luminosity for the features. The tenuous, low surface brightness of the features strongly suggests an origin from the tidal disruption of an accreted galaxy or galaxies. Given the dominance of the tidal debris of Sgr in this region of the sky we investigate if our observations can be accommodated by tidal disruption models for Sgr. The clear discordance between observations and model predictions for known Sgr features means it is difficult to tell unambiguously if the new substructures are related to Sgr or not. Radial velocities in the stellar over-densities will be critical in establishing their origins.


2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (1) ◽  
pp. 638-650
Author(s):  
Eimantas Ledinauskas ◽  
Kastytis Zubovas

ABSTRACT We present a semi-analytic model of isolated dwarf galaxy evolution and use it to study the build-up of observed correlations between dwarf galaxy properties. We analyse the evolution using models with averaged and individual halo mass assembly histories in order to determine the importance of stochasticity on the present-day properties of dwarf galaxies. The model has a few free parameters, but when these are calibrated using the halo mass–stellar mass and stellar mass–metallicity relations, the results agree with other observed dwarf galaxy properties remarkably well. Redshift evolution shows that even isolated galaxies change significantly over the Hubble time and that ‘fossil dwarf galaxies’ with properties equivalent to those of high-redshift analogues should be extremely rare, or non-existent, in the local Universe. A break in most galaxy property correlations develops over time, at a stellar mass $M_* \simeq 10^7 \, {\rm M_{\odot }}$. It is caused predominantly by the ionizing background radiation and can therefore in principle be used to constrain the properties of reionization.


1999 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
I. Drozdovsky ◽  
N. Tikhonov

We present the results of a detailed BVRI and Hα study of the isolated nearby blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy NGC 6789. Judging from the literature the observed galaxy has not yet been resolved into stars up to now. On CCD frames obtained with 6m BTA telescope and 2.5m Nordic telescope the galaxy is well resolved. Its colour-magnitude diagram confirms the two component (core-halo) galaxy morphology, which consists of two stellar populations distinct in structure and colour: an inner high surface-brightness young population within 150 pc from the center of the galaxy, and a relatively low surface-brightness intermediate-age population extending out to at least 600 pc. The distance to the galaxy, estimated from the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is 2.1 Mpc which places NGC 6789 close to the Local Group. From the mean colour of the RGB, the mean metal abundance of the halo population is estimated as [Fe/H] ≃ −1 dex.


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