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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 413, Issue 1, Pages 659-668Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18163.x
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methods: numerical; galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; cosmology: theory
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- STFC [ST/I001166/1, ST/I00162X/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/F002289/1, ST/F002300/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H008519/1, ST/I00162X/1, ST/F002289/1, ST/F002300/1, ST/I001166/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the formation of dwarf galaxies in a representative sample of haloes extracted from the Millennium-II Simulation. Our six haloes have a z = 0 mass of similar to 1010 M-circle dot and show different mass assembly histories which are reflected in different star formation histories. We find final stellar masses in the range 5 x 107- 108 M-circle dot, consistent with other published simulations of galaxy formation in similar mass haloes. Our final objects have structures and stellar populations consistent with observed dwarf galaxies. However, in a Lambda cold dark matter universe, 1010 M-circle dot haloes must typically contain galaxies with much lower stellar mass than our simulated objects if they are to match observed galaxy abundances. The dwarf galaxies formed in our own and all other current hydrodynamical simulations are more than an order of magnitude more luminous than expected for haloes of this mass. We discuss the significance and possible implications of this result.
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