The Formation of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in Cored Dark Matter Halos Through Tidal Stripping and Heating

Timothy Carleton, Raphaël Errani, Michael Cooper +3

We propose that the Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy (UDG) population represents a set of satellite galaxies born in $\sim 10^{10}-10^{11}$ M${}_{\odot }$ halos, similar to field dwarfs, which suffe…