2 papers
astro-ph.CO2012
Dark satellites and the morphology of dwarf galaxies
Amina Helmi, L. V. Sales, E. Starkenburg +4
One of the strongest predictions of the LambdaCDM cosmological model is the presence of dark satellites orbiting all types of galaxies. We focus here on the dynamical effects of su…
astro-ph.GA2011
The population of Milky Way satellites in the LambdaCDM cosmology
Andreea S. Font, Andrew J. Benson, Richard G. Bower +11
We present a model for the satellites of the Milky Way in which galaxy formation is followed using semi-analytic techniques applied to the six high-resolution N-body simulations of…