Dr Isabel Santos isabel.santos@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Dr Isabel Santos isabel.santos@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Laura V Sales
Azadeh Fattahi
Julio F Navarro
The abundance of the faintest galaxies provides insight into the nature of dark matter and the process of dwarf galaxy formation. In the LCDM scenario, low-mass haloes are so numerous that the efficiency of dwarf formation must decline sharply with decreasing halo mass in order to accommodate the relative scarcity of observed dwarfs and satellites in the Local Group. The nature of this decline contains important clues to the mechanisms regulating the onset of galaxy formation in the faintest systems. We explore here two possible models for the stellar mass (M*)–halo mass (M200) relation at the faint end, motivated by some of the latest LCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. One model includes a sharp mass threshold below which no luminous galaxies form, as expected if galaxy formation proceeds only in systems above the hydrogen-cooling limit. In the second model, M* scales as a steep power law of M200 with no explicit cut-off, as suggested by recent semi-analytical work. Although both models predict satellite numbers around Milky Way-like galaxies consistent with current observations, they predict vastly different numbers of ultrafaint dwarfs and of satellites around isolated dwarf galaxies. Our results illustrate how the satellite mass function around dwarfs may be used to probe the M*–M200 relation at the faint end and to elucidate the mechanisms that determine which low-mass haloes ‘light up’ or remain dark in the LCDM scenario.
Santos-Santos, I. M., Sales, L. V., Fattahi, A., & Navarro, J. F. (2022). Satellite mass functions and the faint end of the galaxy mass–halo mass relation in LCDM. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(3), 3685-3697. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2057
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 18, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 23, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022-09 |
Deposit Date | Sep 15, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 15, 2022 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 515 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 3685-3697 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2057 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1191604 |
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