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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 732, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/732/1/17
Keywords
galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: interactions; Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: halo; Local Group
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- Australian Postgraduate Award
- Australian Research Council
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A recent survey of the Galaxy and M31 reveals that more than 90% of dwarf galaxies within 270 kpc of their host galaxy are deficient in Hi gas. At such an extreme radius, the coronal halo gas is an order of magnitude too low to remove Hi gas through ram pressure stripping for any reasonable orbit distribution. However, all dwarfs are known to have an ancient stellar population (greater than or similar to 10 Gyr) from early epochs of vigorous star formation which, through heating of Hi, could allow the hot halo to remove this gas. Our model looks at the evolution of these dwarf galaxies analytically as the host-galaxy dark matter halo and coronal halo gas build up over cosmic time. The dwarf galaxies-treated as spherically symmetric, smooth distributions of dark matter and gas-experience early star formation, which sufficiently heats the gas, allowing it to be removed easily through tidal stripping by the host galaxy, or ram pressure stripping by a tenuous hot halo (n(H) = 3 x 10(-4) cm(-3) at 50 kpc). This model of evolution is able to explain the observed radial distribution of gas-deficient and gas-rich dwarfs around the Galaxy and M31 if the dwarfs fell in at high redshift (z similar to 3-10).
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