The unabridged satellite luminosity function of Milky Way-like galaxies in $\Lambda$CDM: the contribution of "orphan" satellites

Isabel Santos-Santos, Carlos Frenk, Julio Navarro +2

We study the abundance, radial distribution, and orbits of luminous satellites in simulations of MW-mass dark halos in the LCDM cosmology. We follow the evolution of a halo from th…