4 papers
Age and metallicity of low-mass galaxies: from their centres to their stellar halos
Elisa A. Tau, Antonela Monachesi, Facundo A. Gómez +5
We aim to analyse the metallicity and the ages of the stellar halos of low-mass galaxies to better understand their formation history. We use 17 simulated low-mass galaxies from th…
The diverse nature of spiral arms in the Auriga Superstars cosmological hydrodynamic simulations
Robert J J Grand, Francesca Fragkoudi, Rüdiger Pakmor +4
The dynamical nature and formation mechanism(s) of galactic spiral arms remain long-standing problems in astrophysics. Most theoretical work is based on analytic calculations or id…
Mapping the Distorted Dark Matter Distribution of the LMC-SMC System Prior to Milky Way Infall with Basis Function Expansions
Hayden R. Foote, Himansh Rathore, Gurtina Besla +6
The SMC orbits within the LMC's dark matter (DM) halo in a 1:10 mass-ratio encounter. The LMC:Milky Way (MW) interaction is also 1:10, and is expected to perturb the MW…
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…