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2019MNRAS.490.4447W - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 490, 4447-4463 (2019/December-2)

Be it therefore resolved: cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies with 30 solar mass resolution.

WHEELER C., HOPKINS P.F., PACE A.B., GARRISON-KIMMEL S., BOYLAN-KOLCHIN M., WETZEL A., BULLOCK J.S., KERES D., FAUCHER-GIGUERE C.-A. and QUATAERT E.

Abstract (from CDS):

We study a suite of extremely high-resolution cosmological Feedback in Realistic Environments simulations of dwarf galaxies (M_ halo_ ≲1010 M☉), run to z = 0 with 30 M☉ resolution, sufficient (for the first time) to resolve the internal structure of individual supernovae remnants within the cooling radius. Every halo with M_ halo_ ≳108.6 M☉ is populated by a resolved stellar galaxy, suggesting very low-mass dwarfs may be ubiquitous in the field. Our ultra-faint dwarfs (UFDs; M*< 105 M☉) have their star formation (SF) truncated early (z >= 2), likely by reionization, while classical dwarfs (M*> 105 M☉) continue forming stars to z < 0.5. The systems have bursty star formation histories, forming most of their stars in periods of elevated SF strongly clustered in both space and time. This allows our dwarf with M*/Mhalo > 10–4 to form a dark matter core >200 pc, while lower mass UFDs exhibit cusps down to ≲100 pc, as expected from energetic arguments. Our dwarfs with M*> 104 M☉ have half-mass radii (R1/2) in agreement with Local Group (LG) dwarfs (dynamical mass versus R1/2 and stellar rotation also resemble observations). The lowest mass UFDs are below surface brightness limits of current surveys but are potentially visible in next-generation surveys (e.g. LSST). The stellar metallicities are lower than in LG dwarfs; this may reflect pre-enrichment of the LG by the massive hosts or Pop-III stars. Consistency with lower resolution studies implies that our simulations are numerically robust (for a given physical model).

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: dwarf - galaxies: formation - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - Local Group - galaxies: star formation

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