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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 7.

For all satellite galaxies at z = 0 with ﹩{M}_{\mathrm{star}}={10}^{3-9}\;\;{M}_{\odot }﹩ that experienced a major merger with another satellite after falling into the MW/M31 halo, the fraction of such mergers that fell in as part of the same host halo (group), as a function of the time since (or redshift of) the last major merger, ﹩{T}_{\mathrm{LMM}}﹩ (or ﹩{z}_{\mathrm{LMM}}﹩). We do not find any significant dependence on satellite mass. Infalling groups drive the majority (60%–90%) of all satellite–satellite mergers.

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