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SATELLITE DWARF GALAXIES IN A HIERARCHICAL UNIVERSE: INFALL HISTORIES, GROUP PREPROCESSING, AND REIONIZATION

  • Authors: Andrew R. Wetzel, Alis J. Deason, and Shea Garrison-Kimmel

2015 The Astrophysical Journal 807 49.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

For satellite dwarf galaxies that were preprocessed in a group before falling into the MW/M31 halo, the maximum host-halo mass experienced during preprocessing (top) and the total duration of preprocessing (bottom), as a function of satellite stellar mass, Mstar, or subhalo peak mass, ﹩{M}_{\mathrm{peak}}﹩. Solid curves shows median, shaded regions show 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the distribution. Most preprocessing occurred in groups with ﹩{M}_{\mathrm{vir}}={10}^{10-12}\;\;{M}_{\odot }﹩, masses at which environmental effects are feasible, though poorly understood. The typical group preprocessing duration was 0.5–3.5 Gyr, though some satellites at ﹩{M}_{\mathrm{star}}\lt {10}^{7}\;\;{M}_{\odot }﹩ experienced significantly longer durations.

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