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Publications (83)

astro-ph.GA2020

The dark matter component of the Gaia radially anisotropic substructure

Nassim Bozorgnia, Azadeh Fattahi, Carlos S. Frenk +5

We study the properties of the dark matter component of the radially anisotropic stellar population recently identified in the Gaia data, using magneto-hydrodynamical simulations o…

astro-ph.GA2024

Pre-supernova stellar feedback in nearby starburst dwarf galaxies

Lucie E. Rowland, Anna F. McLeod, Azadeh Fattahi +7

Stellar feedback in dwarf galaxies remains, to date, poorly explored, yet is crucial to understanding galaxy evolution in the early Universe. In particular, pre-supernova feedback…

astro-ph.GA2020

Sausage & Mash: The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage merger

Robert J. J. Grand, Daisuke Kawata, Vasily Belokurov +6

We analyse a set of cosmological magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies identified to have a prominent radially anisotropic stellar halo compo…

astro-ph.GA2017

The origin of the mass discrepancy-acceleration relation in CDM

Julio F. Navarro, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Azadeh Fattahi +5

We examine the origin of the mass discrepancy--radial acceleration relation (MDAR) of disk galaxies. This is a tight empirical correlation between the disk centripetal acceleration…

astro-ph.GA2025

Tiny galaxies and dark substructures: exploring the "dark" subhaloes in TNG50

Jessica E. Doppel, Mathilde Jauzac, David J. Lagattuta +2

Dark matter haloes and subhaloes that host no luminous counterpart are predicted within our current understanding of galaxy formation within a CDM paradigm. Observational tests…

astro-ph.GA2018

The innate origin of radial and vertical gradients in a simulated galaxy disc

Julio F. Navarro, Cameron Yozin, Nic Loewen +6

We examine the origin of radial and vertical gradients in the age/metallicity of the stellar component of a galaxy disc formed in the APOSTLE cosmological hydrody- namical simulati…

astro-ph.GA2017

Knowing the unknowns: uncertainties in simple estimators of galactic dynamical masses

David J. R. Campbell, Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins +7

The observed stellar kinematics of dispersion-supported galaxies are often used to measure dynamical masses. Recently, several analytical relationships between the stellar line-of-…

astro-ph.CO2013

Galaxy Pairs in the Local Group

Azadeh Fattahi, Julio F. Navarro, Else Starkenburg +2

Current models of galaxy formation predict that galaxy pairs of comparable magnitudes should become increasingly rare with decreasing luminosity. This seems at odds with the relati…

astro-ph.GA2023

Can we really pick and choose? Benchmarking various selections of Gaia Enceladus/Sausage stars in observations with simulations

Andreia Carrillo, Alis J. Deason, Azadeh Fattahi +2

Large spectroscopic surveys plus Gaia astrometry have shown us that the inner stellar halo of the Galaxy is dominated by the debris of Gaia Enceladus/Sausage (GES). With the richne…

astro-ph.GA2023

Unravelling the mass spectrum of destroyed dwarf galaxies with the metallicity distribution function

Alis J. Deason, Sergey E. Koposov, Azadeh Fattahi +1

Accreted stellar populations are comprised of the remnants of destroyed galaxies, and often dominate the `stellar haloes' of galaxies such as the Milky Way (MW). This ensemble of e…

astro-ph.GA2020

The APOSTLE project: Local Group kinematic mass constraints and simulation candidate selection

Azadeh Fattahi, Julio F. Navarro, Till Sawala +8

We use a large sample of isolated dark matter halo pairs drawn from cosmological N-body simulations to identify candidate systems whose kinematics match that of the Local Group of…

astro-ph.GA2020

Local Group star formation in warm and self-interacting dark matter cosmologies

Mark R. Lovell, Wojciech Hellwing, Aaron Ludlow +5

The nature of the dark matter can affect the collapse time of dark matter haloes, and can therefore be imprinted in observables such as the stellar population ages and star formati…

astro-ph.GA2020

The missing dwarf galaxies of the Local Group

Azadeh Fattahi, Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk

We study the Local Group (LG) dwarf galaxy population predicted by the \apostle CDM cosmological hydrodynamics simulations. These indicate that: (i)~the total mass within M…

astro-ph.GA2016

Tidal features of classical Milky Way satellites in a CDM universe

M. -Y. Wang, Azadeh Fattahi, Andrew P. Cooper +6

We use the APOSTLE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to examine the effects of tidal stripping on cold dark matter (CDM) sub haloes that host three of the most luminous Milky W…

astro-ph.GA2020

The Edge of the Galaxy

Alis J. Deason, Azadeh Fattahi, Carlos S. Frenk +5

We use cosmological simulations of isolated Milky Way-mass galaxies, as well as Local Group analogues, to define the "edge" -- a caustic manifested in a drop in density or radial v…

astro-ph.GA2015

The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves

Kyle A. Oman, Julio F. Navarro, Azadeh Fattahi +9

We examine the circular velocity profiles of galaxies in ΛCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the EAGLE and LOCAL GROUPS projects and compare them with a compilation…

astro-ph.GA2019

The local high velocity tail and the Galactic escape speed

Alis J. Deason, Azadeh Fattahi, Vasily Belokurov +4

We model the fastest moving (v_tot > 300 km/s) local (D < 3 kpc) halo stars using cosmological simulations and 6-dimensional Gaia data. Our approach is to use our knowledge of the…

astro-ph.GA2018

Aurigaia: mock Gaia DR2 stellar catalogues from the Auriga cosmological simulations

Robert J. J. Grand, John Helly, Azadeh Fattahi +12

We present and analyse mock stellar catalogues that match the selection criteria and observables (including uncertainties) of the Gaia satellite data release 2 (DR2). The source ar…

astro-ph.GA2016

The cold dark matter content of Galactic dwarf spheroidals: no cores, no failures, no problem

Azadeh Fattahi, Julio F. Navarro, Till Sawala +5

We examine the dark matter content of satellite galaxies in Lambda-CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Group from the APOSTLE project. We find excellent agreem…

astro-ph.IM2016

Using the Multi-Object Adaptive Optics demonstrator RAVEN to observe metal-poor stars in and towards the Galactic Centre

Masen Lamb, Kim Venn, David Andersen +16

The chemical abundances for five metal-poor stars in and towards the Galactic bulge have been determined from H-band infrared spectroscopy taken with the RAVEN multi-object adaptiv…

astro-ph.GA2023

The impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud on dark matter direct detection signals

Adam Smith-Orlik, Nima Ronaghi, Nassim Bozorgnia +9

We study the effect of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) on the dark matter (DM) distribution in the Solar neighborhood, utilizing the Auriga magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of M…

astro-ph.GA2025

LYRA ultra-faints: The emergence of faint dwarf galaxies in the presence of an early Lyman-Werner background

Shaun T. Brown, Azadeh Fattahi, Thales A. Gutcke +6

We present a suite of zoom-in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies using the LYRA galaxy formation model with an extremely high mass resolution of $4\, \mathrm…

astro-ph.GA2021

EAGLE-Auriga: effects of different subgrid models on the baryon cycle around Milky Way-mass galaxies

Ashley J. Kelly, Adrian Jenkins, Alis Deason +5

Modern hydrodynamical simulations reproduce many properties of the real universe. These simulations model various physical processes, but many of these are included using `subgrid…

astro-ph.GA2019

The distinct stellar metallicity populations of simulated Local Group dwarfs

Anna Genina, Carlos S. Frenk, Alejandro Benitez-Llambay +4

A number of Local Group dwarf galaxies are known to have two spatially segregated stellar metallicity populations, a centrally concentrated metal-rich population and a more extende…

astro-ph.GA2022

Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies

Laura V. Sales, Andrew Wetzel, Azadeh Fattahi

Galaxies and their dark-matter halos have posed several challenges to the Dark Energy plus Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmological model. These discrepancies between observations and…

astro-ph.GA2019

The star formation histories of dwarf galaxies in Local Group cosmological simulations

Ruth Digby, Julio F. Navarro, Azadeh Fattahi +6

We use the APOSTLE and Auriga cosmological simulations to study the star formation histories (SFHs) of field and satellite dwarf galaxies. Despite sizeable galaxy-to-galaxy scatter…

astro-ph.GA2020

Baryonic clues to the puzzling diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves

Isabel M. E. Santos-Santos, Julio F. Navarro, Andrew Robertson +7

We use a compilation of disc galaxy rotation curves to assess the role of the luminous component ("baryons") in the rotation curve diversity problem. As in earlier work, we find th…

astro-ph.CO2014

The chosen few: the low mass halos that host faint galaxies

Till Sawala, Carlos S. Frenk, Azadeh Fattahi +8

Since reionization prevents star formation in most halos below 3 x 10^9 solar masses, dwarf galaxies only populate a fraction of existing dark matter halos. We use hydrodynamic cos…

astro-ph.HE2019

The glow of annihilating dark matter in Omega Centauri

Anthony M. Brown, Richard Massey, Thomas Lacroix +3

Dark matter (DM) is the most abundant material in the Universe, but has so far been detected only via its gravitational effects. Several theories suggest that pairs of DM particles…

astro-ph.GA2019

The Ophiuchus stream progenitor: a new type of globular cluster and its possible Sagittarius connection

James M. M. Lane, Julio F. Navarro, Azadeh Fattahi +2

The Ophiuchus stream is a short arc-like stellar feature of uncertain origin located kpc North of the Galactic centre. New proper motions from the second data relea…

astro-ph.GA2026

Large Scale Structure and Environmental Effects on Dwarf Galaxy Growth

Mac M. McMullan, Sownak Bose, Azadeh Fattahi +3

Dwarf galaxies serve as key models for understanding galaxy assembly in the early universe, with their final properties influenced by environmental factors. Using the dark matter-o…

astro-ph.CO2022

Velocity-dependent J-factors for Milky Way dwarf spheroidal analogues in cosmological simulations

Keagan Blanchette, Erin Piccirillo, Nassim Bozorgnia +5

We study the impact of the dark matter velocity distribution modelling on signals from velocity-dependent dark matter annihilation in Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Using the…

astro-ph.GA2022

Satellite mass functions and the faint end of the galaxy mass-halo mass relation in LCDM

Isabel M. E. Santos-Santos, Laura V. Sales, Azadeh Fattahi +1

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 halos are so numero…

astro-ph.GA2013

The Orbital Ellipticity of Satellite Galaxies and the Mass of the Milky Way

Christopher Barber, Else Starkenburg, Julio Navarro +2

We use simulations of Milky Way-sized dark matter haloes from the Aquarius Project to investigate the orbits of substructure haloes likely, according to a semi-analytic galaxy form…

astro-ph.GA2019

Subhalo destruction in the Apostle and Auriga simulations

Jack Richings, Carlos Frenk, Adrian Jenkins +7

N-body simulations make unambiguous predictions for the abundance of substructures within dark matter halos. However, the inclusion of baryons in the simulations changes the pictur…

astro-ph.GA2023

Exploring the diversity and similarity of radially anisotropic Milky Way-like stellar haloes: implications for disrupted dwarf galaxy searches

Matthew D. A. Orkney, Chervin F. P. Laporte, Robert J. J. Grand +7

We investigate the properties of mergers comparable to the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies. The merger progeni…

astro-ph.GA2019

No cores in dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies with bursty star formation histories

Sownak Bose, Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins +10

Measurements of the rotation curves of dwarf galaxies are often interpreted as requiring a constant density core at the centre, at odds with the "cuspy" inner profiles predicted by…

astro-ph.GA2018

Tidal stripping and the structure of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group

Azadeh Fattahi, Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk +3

The shallow faint-end slope of the galaxy mass function is usually reproduced in CDM galaxy formation models by assuming that the fraction of baryons that turns into stars drop…

astro-ph.GA2021

The mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using halo stars

Alis J. Deason, Denis Erkal, Vasily Belokurov +9

We use a distribution function analysis to estimate the mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using a large sample of halo stars. These stars are compiled from the literature, and t…

astro-ph.GA2025

Self-interacting dark matter in the center of a Local Group dwarf galaxy and its satellites

Thales A. Gutcke, Giulia Despali, Stephanie O'Neil +3

We present a detailed comparison of a Local Group dwarf galaxy analogue evolved in two cosmological models: the standard CDM and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) model wit…

astro-ph.GA2019

The Biggest Splash

Vasily Belokurov, Jason L. Sanders, Azadeh Fattahi +4

Using a large sample of bright nearby stars with accurate Gaia Data Release 2 astrometry and auxiliary spectroscopy we map out the properties of the principle Galactic components s…

astro-ph.GA2021

Magellanic satellites in CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Group

Isabel M. E. Santos-Santos, Azadeh Fattahi, Laura V. Sales +1

We use the APOSTLE CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Group to study the recent accretion of massive satellites into the halo of Milky Way (MW)-sized gala…

astro-ph.GA2022

Galactic tides and the Crater II dwarf spheroidal: a challenge to LCDM?

Alexandra Borukhovetskaya, Julio F. Navarro, Raphael Errani +1

The unusually low velocity dispersion and large size of Crater II pose a challenge to our understanding of dwarf galaxies in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmogony. The low v…

astro-ph.GA2016

The properties of "dark" ΛCDM halos in the Local Group

Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk +7

We examine the baryon content of low-mass ΛCDM halos using the APOSTLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Most of these systems…

astro-ph.GA2020

The Milky Way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2

Marius Cautun, Alejandro Benitez-Llambay, Alis J. Deason +7

We determine the Milky Way (MW) mass profile inferred from fitting physically motivated models to the Gaia DR2 Galactic rotation curve and other data. Using various hydrodynamical…

astro-ph.GA2025

The accreted stellar haloes of Milky Way-mass galaxies as a probe of the nature of the dark matter

Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, Azadeh Fattahi, Alis J. Deason +2

Galactic stellar haloes are largely composed of the remnants of galaxies accreted during the assembly of their host galaxies, and hence their properties reflect the mass spectrum a…

astro-ph.GA2024

ARTEMIS emulator: exploring the effect of cosmology and galaxy formation physics on Milky Way-mass haloes and their satellites

Shaun T. Brown, Azadeh Fattahi, Ian G. McCarthy +3

We present the new ARTEMIS Emulator suite of high resolution (baryon mass of M) zoom-in simulations of Milky Way mass systems. Here, three ha…

astro-ph.GA2022

Energy wrinkles and phase-space folds of the last major merger

Vasily Belokurov, Eugene Vasiliev, Alis J. Deason +5

Relying on the dramatic increase in the number of stars with full 6D phase-space information provided by the Gaia Data Release 3, we discover unambiguous signatures of phase-mixing…

astro-ph.GA2026

Local Group analogues in a cosmological context -- I. Relating velocity structure to the cosmic web

Kai Wang, Peder Norberg, Azadeh Fattahi +1

Our Local Group, dominated in mass by the Milky Way (MW) and M31, provides a unique laboratory for testing CDM cosmology on small scales owing to its proximity. However, its co…

astro-ph.GA2016

The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies

Matthieu Schaller, Carlos S. Frenk, Azadeh Fattahi +3

We investigate the presence and importance of dark matter discs in a sample of 24 simulated Milky Way galaxies in the APOSTLE project, part of the EAGLE programme of hydrodynamic s…

astro-ph.GA2014

Bent by baryons: the low mass galaxy-halo relation

Till Sawala, Carlos S. Frenk, Azadeh Fattahi +11

The relation between galaxies and dark matter halos is of vital importance for evaluating theoretical predictions of structure formation and galaxy formation physics. We show that…

astro-ph.GA2025

Co-evolution of baryons and dark matter halos of LYRA dwarf galaxies

Joaquin Sureda, Shaun T. Brown, Azadeh Fattahi +4

We use the extremely high-resolution () LYRA cosmological galaxy formation simulations of six dwarf galaxies with at…

astro-ph.GA2018

Missing dark matter in dwarf galaxies?

Kyle A. Oman, Julio F. Navarro, Laura V. Sales +5

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the APOSTLE project along with high-quality rotation curve observations to examine the fraction of baryons in ΛCDM haloes that co…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small-scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter

Alis J. Deason, Sownak Bose, Azadeh Fattahi +3

We use N-body cosmological simulations and empirical galaxy models to study the merger history of dwarf-mass galaxies (with M_halo~10^10 M_Sun). Our input galaxy models describe th…

astro-ph.GA2025

The lives and deaths of faint satellite galaxies around M31

Alex Merrow, Kyle A. Oman, Azadeh Fattahi

We present predictions for proper motions, infall times and times of first pericentric passage for 39 of M31's satellite galaxies. We estimate these by sampling satellite orbits fr…

astro-ph.GA2025

Auriga Streams I: disrupting satellites surrounding Milky Way-mass haloes at multiple resolutions

Alexander H. Riley, Nora Shipp, Christine M. Simpson +8

In a hierarchically formed Universe, galaxies accrete smaller systems that tidally disrupt as they evolve in the host's potential. We present a complete catalogue of disrupting gal…

astro-ph.GA2021

Can tides explain the low dark matter density in Fornax?

Anna Genina, Justin I. Read, Azadeh Fattahi +1

The low dark matter density in the Fornax dwarf galaxy is often interpreted as being due to the presence of a constant density `core', but it could also be explained by the effects…

astro-ph.CO2021

Velocity-dependent J-factors for annihilation radiation from cosmological simulations

Erin Board, Nassim Bozorgnia, Louis E. Strigari +6

We determine the dark matter pair-wise relative velocity distribution in a set of Milky Way-like halos in the Auriga and APOSTLE simulations. Focusing on the smooth halo component,…

astro-ph.GA2016

The low-mass end of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation

Laura V. Sales, Julio F. Navarro, Kyle Oman +11

The scaling of disk galaxy rotation velocity with baryonic mass (the "Baryonic Tully-Fisher" relation, BTF) has long confounded galaxy formation models. It is steeper than the M ~…

astro-ph.GA2015

The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles

Till Sawala, Carlos S. Frenk, Azadeh Fattahi +13

The Local Group of galaxies offer some of the most discriminating tests of models of cosmic structure formation. For example, observations of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda satel…

astro-ph.GA2026

Implications of a contracted dark matter halo for the Milky Way's inferred virial mass

Diego Dado, Shaun T. Brown, Azadeh Fattahi +2

We investigate how reliably the global properties of Milky Way-mass dark matter haloes can be recovered from dynamical data over a limited radial range, particularly $\lesssim 30~\…

astro-ph.GA2021

The tidal evolution of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal and its globular clusters

Alexandra Borukhovetskaya, Raphael Errani, Julio F. Navarro +2

The dark matter (DM) content of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy inferred from its kinematics is substantially lower than expected from LCDM cosmological simulations. We use N-bo…

astro-ph.CO2015

Dark matter annihilation radiation in hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way haloes

Matthieu Schaller, Carlos S. Frenk, Tom Theuns +8

We obtain predictions for the properties of cold dark matter annihilation radiation using high resolution hydrodynamic zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies (…

astro-ph.GA2020

A tale of two populations: surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies and the build up of the Milky Way's stellar halo

Azadeh Fattahi, Alis J. Deason, Carlos S. Frenk +6

We use magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-mass haloes from the Auriga project to examine the properties of surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies that are accreted by…

astro-ph.GA2020

How Unusual is the Milky Way's Assembly History?

Tilly A. Evans, Azadeh Fattahi, Alis J. Deason +1

In the CDM model of structure formation galactic haloes build up by accretion of mass and mergers of smaller subunits. The most recent massive merger event experienced by the M…

astro-ph.GA2021

Observing the stellar halo of Andromeda in cosmological simulations: the Auriga2PAndAS pipeline

Guillaume F. Thomas, Nicolas F. Martin, Azadeh Fattahi +10

We present a direct comparison of the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) observations of the stellar halo of M31 with the stellar halos of 6 galaxies from the Auriga simu…

astro-ph.GA2021

Satellites Around Milky Way Analogs: Tension in the Number and Fraction of Quiescent Satellites Seen in Observations Versus Simulations

Ananthan Karunakaran, Kristine Spekkens, Kyle A. Oman +13

We compare the star-forming properties of satellites around Milky Way (MW) analogs from the Stage~II release of the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs Survey (SAGA-II) to those fro…

astro-ph.GA2020

Stellar splashback: the edge of the intracluster light

Alis J. Deason, Kyle A. Oman, Azadeh Fattahi +8

We examine the outskirts of galaxy clusters in the C-EAGLE simulations to quantify the `edges' of the stellar and dark matter distribution. The radius of the steepest slope in the…

astro-ph.GA2024

Apostle--Auriga: Effects of stellar feedback subgrid models on the evolution of angular momentum in disc galaxies

Hang Yang, Shihong Liao, Azadeh Fattahi +7

Utilizing the Apostle--Auriga simulations, which start from the same zoom-in initial conditions of Local Group-like systems but run with different galaxy formation subgrid models a…

astro-ph.GA2022

Observing EAGLE galaxies with JWST: predictions for Milky Way progenitors and their building blocks

Tilly A Evans, Azadeh Fattahi, Alis J Deason +1

We present predictions, derived from the EAGLE LCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, for the abundance and properties of galaxies expected to be detected at high redshift b…

astro-ph.GA2023

Are there any extragalactic high speed dark matter particles in the Solar neighborhood?

Isabel Santos-Santos, Nassim Bozorgnia, Azadeh Fattahi +1

We use the APOSTLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Group to examine the high speed tail of the local dark matter velocity distribution in simulated Mi…

astro-ph.GA2016

The oldest and most metal poor stars in the APOSTLE Local Group simulations

Else Starkenburg, Kyle A. Oman, Julio F. Navarro +5

We examine the spatial distribution of the oldest and most metal poor stellar populations of Milky Way-sized galaxies using the APOSTLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of t…

astro-ph.GA2017

The Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: a Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter halos

Aaron D. Ludlow, Alejandro Benitez-Llambay, Matthieu Schaller +8

We analyze the total and baryonic acceleration profiles of a set of well-resolved galaxies identified in the EAGLE suite of hydrodynamic simulations. Our runs start from the same i…

astro-ph.GA2019

On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities

Nassim Bozorgnia, Azadeh Fattahi, David G. Cerdeno +5

The dark matter velocity distribution in the Solar neighbourhood is an important astrophysical input which enters in the predicted event rate of dark matter direct detection experi…

astro-ph.GA2014

Local Group galaxies emerge from the dark

Till Sawala, Carlos S. Frenk, Azadeh Fattahi +13

The "Lambda Cold Dark Matter" (LCDM) model of cosmic structure formation is eminently falsifiable: once its parameters are fixed on large scales, it becomes testable in the nearby…

astro-ph.GA2024

Magnetic field amplification in cosmological zoom simulations from dwarf galaxies to galaxy groups

Ruediger Pakmor, Rebekka Bieri, Freeke van de Voort +6

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe. Recently, cosmological simulations of galaxies have successfully begun to incorporate magnetic fields and their evolution in galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2019

The velocity anisotropy of the Milky Way satellite system

Alexander H. Riley, Azadeh Fattahi, Andrew B. Pace +9

We analyse the orbital kinematics of the Milky Way (MW) satellite system utilizing the latest systemic proper motions for 38 satellites based on data from Gaia Data Release 2. Comb…

astro-ph.GA2020

The origin of galactic metal-rich stellar halo components with highly eccentric orbits

Azadeh Fattahi, Vasily Belokurov, Alis J. Deason +6

Using the astrometry from the ESA's Gaia mission, previous works have shown that the Milky Way stellar halo is dominated by metal-rich stars on highly eccentric orbits. To shed lig…

astro-ph.GA2017

The core-cusp problem: a matter of perspective

Anna Genina, Alejandro Benitez-Llambay, Carlos S. Frenk +6

The existence of two kinematically and chemically distinct stellar subpopulations in the Sculptor and Fornax dwarf galaxies offers the opportunity to constrain the density profile…

astro-ph.GA2026

Stirring Things Up: Bar-induced substructures in the stellar halo of a cosmological Milky Way analogue

Thomas Tomlinson, Francesca Fragkoudi, Andreia Carrillo +8

The stellar halo of the Milky Way contains the remnants of past accretion events, which could be detectable as substructures in the classical integrals of motion space, such as ene…

astro-ph.GA2026

Columba: isolated dwarf galaxy populations in diverse cosmological environments simulated with a cold interstellar medium

Jemima M. Briggs, Azadeh Fattahi, Robert A. Crain +7

We introduce a suite of LambdaCDM cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations that track the evolution of a large population of dwarf galaxies. The suite comprises zoom-in simulations…

astro-ph.GA2025

From order to chaos: the blurred out metallicity gradient of the Gaia-Enceladus/Sausage progenitor

Andreia Carrillo, Alis J. Deason, Azadeh Fattahi +2

The powerful combination of Gaia with other Milky Way large survey data has ushered in a deeper understanding of the assembly history of our Galaxy, which is marked by the accretio…

astro-ph.GA2017

What galaxy masses perturb the local cosmic expansion?

Jorge Peñarrubia, Azadeh Fattahi

We use 12 cosmological -body simulations of Local Group systems (the Apostle models) to inspect the relation between the virial mass of the main haloes ( and $M_{…