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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 743, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/117
Keywords
dark matter; galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: evolution; Magellanic Clouds
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- National Science Foundation [NSF AST-0908883]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- NASA ATP
- NSF AST
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1009908, 1010033, 0908883] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We calculate the probability that aMilky-Way (MW)-like halo in the standard cosmological model has the observed number of Magellanic Clouds (MCs). The statistics of the number of MCs in the lambda cold dark matter model are in good agreement with observations of a large sample of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies. Under the subhalo abundance matching assumption of a relationship with small scatter between galaxy r-band luminosities and halo internal velocities v(max), we make detailed comparisons to similar measurements using SDSS Data Release 7 data by Liu et al. Models and observational data give very similar probabilities for having zero, one, and two MC-like satellites. In both cases, MW luminosity hosts have just a similar to 10% chance of hosting two satellites similar to the MCs. In addition, we present a prediction for the probability for a host galaxy to have N-sats satellite galaxies as a function of the magnitudes of both the host and satellite. This probability and its scaling with host properties is significantly different from that of mass-selected objects because of scatter in the mass-luminosity relation and because of variations in the star formation efficiency with halo mass.
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