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What are the smallest galaxies?

What are the smallest galaxies?. Joss Bland-Hawthorn University of Sydney Missing Baryons Women's College 2009. Collaborators: R. Sutherland, T. Karlsson. Building blocks of the Galaxy Ultra faint dwarfs – just what are these? Fyris simulations of supernovae in Einasto DM halos

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What are the smallest galaxies?

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  1. What are the smallest galaxies? Joss Bland-Hawthorn University of Sydney Missing Baryons Women's College 2009 Collaborators: R. Sutherland, T. Karlsson

  2. Building blocks of the Galaxy • Ultra faint dwarfs – just what are these? • Fyris simulations of supernovae in Einasto DM halos • Ultra low-mass galaxies – are these the same thing? • "the smallest DM halo that can retain cold gas in the event of a single SN explosion" • (JBH, Sutherland & Karlsson 2010) Outline

  3. Galaxy formation is largely driven by the unseen... MSO, Oct 09

  4. Geha, Simon+ 08

  5. Recent discovery of ultra-faint dwarfs (UFDs)

  6. Baryons swept out by single SN for MDM < 3×107 M

  7. "the smallest DM halo that can retain cold gas in the event of a single SN explosion" Ultra low-mass galaxy no gravity coldest clouds ~50 K, ~102 cm-3 Fractal medium (Kolmogorov)

  8. Smooth vs. Clumped

  9. PPM Riemann solver High order Gudonov scheme Refined not dynamic mesh Split-sweep; shock capturing Asplund (2005) metals except... [Fe/H] = -4.0 Fyris 3D hydrodynamics (Sutherland 2010) • Liska-Wendroff (2003) tests on • instability growth, shock capturing... C: 1.5× O: 5× Mg, Si, Ca: 2.5× H2, dust turned off • 3 level nested simulations: • L00: 12 rc • L01: 4 rc • L02: << rc Sutherland & Dopita (2003)

  10. Ultra low-mass galaxy These models were chosen to resemble UFDs, i.e. very low fb We have begun to consider higher fb models where the core baryons modify the potential – self gravity must be included

  11. Ŝ = <SFR density> ~ 10-4 M yr-1 kpc-2 SF timescale Timescale ~ N★ / Ŝ π rc2 ~ 1 Gyr

  12. Ultra low-mass galaxy

  13. MDM = 107 M L00 L01

  14. MDM = 106.5 M L00 L01

  15. Lowest mass ~ 106 M: Gas retention post SN at t=200,000 yrs is ~5% Fall back gives ~15% Off centred SN retains ~30% More gas retained if fb increased 107 M 106 M

  16. Turbulence timescale ~ 20-40 Myr Stars forming in bursts every ~ 100 Myr Kinematics σ ≈ 4 km s-1 is at low end of UFD range, σ ≈ 3-8 km s-1

  17. Number of stars, N★~ 300-3000 Core size, rc ~ 30-50 pc Dispersion, σ★ ~ 4 km s-1 Radial profile ~ Plummer or faster Non-detectability of HI But are ultra low-mass galaxies truly consistent with UFDs... See Torgny Karlsson's talk this afternoon. Summary so far...

  18. Einasto vs. Burkert (isothermal)

  19. Wireless Access • Turn on wireless Select usyd-guest Open web browser to get wireless web page • username: mbiadconf • password: aShzWVPW

  20. Are there gas-rich UFDs?

  21. Survival of baryons in UFDs How do UFDs receive and then retain their baryons? Are they stripped cores of larger ancient systems? binding energy of DM halo

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