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Ultra faint dwarfs : probing early cosmic star formation
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Salvadori, Stefania Ferrara, Andrea |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | We investigate the nature of the newly discovered Ultra Faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies (UF dSphs) in a general cosmological context simultaneously accounting for various “classical“ dSphs and Milky Way properties including their Metallicity Distribution Function (MDF). To this aim we extend the merger tree approach previously developed to include the presence of star-forming minihaloes, and a heuristic prescription for radiative feedback. The model successfully reproduces both the observed [Fe/H]Luminosity relation and the mean MDF of UFs. In this picture UFs are the oldest, most dark matter-dominated (M/L > 100) dSphs with a total mass M = 10M⊙; they are leftovers of H2-cooling minihaloes formed at z > 8.5, i.e. before reionization. Their MDF is broader (because of a more prolonged SF) and shifted towards lower [Fe/H] (as a result of a lower gas metallicity at the time of formation) than that of classical dSphs. These systems are very ineffectively star-forming, turning into stars by z = 0 only < 3% of the potentially available baryons. We provide a useful fit for the star formation efficiency of dSphs. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/0812.3151v2.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/0812.3151v1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | COSMIC DWARF Dark Matter Dietary Iron Field electron emission GUCY2C protein, human Heuristic Stars, Celestial |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
