2024ApJ...966...93J -
Astrophys. J., 966, 93 (2024/May-1)
Gas and Star Formation in Satellites of Milky Way Analogs.
JONES M.G., SAND D.J., KARUNAKARAN A., SPEKKENS K., OMAN K.A., BENNET P., BESLA G., CRNOJEVIC D., CUILLANDRE J.-C., FIELDER C.E., GWYN S. and MUTLU-PAKDIL B.
Abstract (from CDS):
We have imaged the entirety of eight (plus one partial) Milky Way (MW)-like satellite systems, a total of 42 (45) satellites, from the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs II catalog in both Hα and H I with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the Jansky Very Large Array. In these eight systems we have identified four cases where a satellite appears to be currently undergoing ram pressure stripping (RPS) as its H I gas collides with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of its host. We also see a clear suppression of gas fraction (MHI/M*) with decreasing (projected) satellite-host separation-to our knowledge, the first time this has been observed in a sample of MW-like systems. Comparisons to the Auriga, A Project Of Simulating The Local Environment, and TNG50 cosmological zoom-in simulations show consistent global behavior, but they systematically underpredict gas fractions across all satellites by roughly 0.5 dex. Using a simplistic RPS model, we estimate the average peak CGM density that satellites in these systems have encountered to be $\mathrm{log}{\rho }_{\mathrm{cgm}}/{\rm{g}}\,{\mathrm{cm}}^{-3}\approx -27.3$. Furthermore, we see tentative evidence that these satellites are following a specific star formation rate to gas fraction relation that is distinct from field galaxies. Finally, we detect one new gas-rich satellite in the UGC 903 system with an optical size and surface brightness meeting the standard criteria to be considered an ultra-diffuse galaxy.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Dwarf galaxies - Galaxy quenching - Ram pressure stripped tails - Interstellar atomic gas - Circumgalactic medium
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Fig. 6, Table 2: [JSK2024] dw0122+1735 N=1.
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