4 papers
Ultra-faint dwarfs in a Milky Way context: Introducing the Mint Condition DC Justice League Simulations
Elaad Applebaum, Alyson M. Brooks, Charlotte R. Christensen +4
We present results from the "Mint" resolution DC Justice League suite of Milky Way-like zoom-in cosmological simulations, which extend our study of nearby galaxies down into the ul…
Quenching timescales of dwarf satellites around Milky Way-mass hosts
Hollis B. Akins, Charlotte R. Christensen, Alyson M. Brooks +4
Observations of the low-mass satellites in the Local Group have shown high fractions of gas-poor, quiescent galaxies relative to isolated dwarfs, implying that the host halo enviro…
Roll of the Dice: A Stochastically Sampled IMF Alters the Stellar Content of Simulated Dwarf Galaxies
Elaad Applebaum, Alyson M. Brooks, Thomas R. Quinn +1
Cosmological simulations are reaching the resolution necessary to study ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. Observations indicate that in small populations, the stellar initial mass functi…
Dancing in the Dark: Uncertainty in ultra-faint dwarf galaxy predictions from cosmological simulations
Ferah Munshi, Alyson M. Brooks, Charlotte Christensen +4
The existence of ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies highlights the need to push our theoretical understanding of galaxies to extremely low mass. We examine the formation of UFDs by t…