Deep Hubble Space Telescope Photometry of LMC and Milky Way Ultra-Faint Dwarfs: A careful look into the magnitude-size relation
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| author | Richstein, Hannah Kallivayalil, Nitya Simon, Joshua D. Garling, Christopher T. Wetzel, Andrew Warfield, Jack T. van der Marel, Roeland P. Jeon, Myoungwon Rose, Jonah C. Torrey, Paul Engelhardt, Anna Claire Besla, Gurtina Choi, Yumi Geha, Marla Guhathakurta, Puragra Kirby, Evan N. Patel, Ekta Sacchi, Elena Sohn, Sangmo Tony |
| author_facet | Richstein, Hannah Kallivayalil, Nitya Simon, Joshua D. Garling, Christopher T. Wetzel, Andrew Warfield, Jack T. van der Marel, Roeland P. Jeon, Myoungwon Rose, Jonah C. Torrey, Paul Engelhardt, Anna Claire Besla, Gurtina Choi, Yumi Geha, Marla Guhathakurta, Puragra Kirby, Evan N. Patel, Ekta Sacchi, Elena Sohn, Sangmo Tony |
| contents | We present deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry of ten targets from Treasury Program GO-14734, including six confirmed ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs), three UFD candidates, and one likely globular cluster. Six of these targets are satellites of, or have interacted with, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We determine their structural parameters using a maximum-likelihood technique. Using our newly derived half-light radius ($r_h$) and $V$-band magnitude ($M_V$) values in addition to literature values for other UFDs, we find that UFDs associated with the LMC do not show any systematic differences from Milky Way UFDs in the magnitude-size plane. Additionally, we convert simulated UFD properties from the literature into the $M_V-r_h$ observational space to examine the abilities of current dark matter (DM) and baryonic simulations to reproduce observed UFDs. Some of these simulations adopt alternative DM models, thus allowing us to also explore whether the $M_V-r_h$ plane could be used to constrain the nature of DM. We find no differences in the magnitude-size plane between UFDs simulated with cold, warm, and self-interacting dark matter, but note that the sample of UFDs simulated with alternative DM models is quite limited at present. As more deep, wide-field survey data become available, we will have further opportunities to discover and characterize these ultra-faint stellar systems and the greater low surface-brightness universe. |
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| spellingShingle | Deep Hubble Space Telescope Photometry of LMC and Milky Way Ultra-Faint Dwarfs: A careful look into the magnitude-size relation Richstein, Hannah Kallivayalil, Nitya Simon, Joshua D. Garling, Christopher T. Wetzel, Andrew Warfield, Jack T. van der Marel, Roeland P. Jeon, Myoungwon Rose, Jonah C. Torrey, Paul Engelhardt, Anna Claire Besla, Gurtina Choi, Yumi Geha, Marla Guhathakurta, Puragra Kirby, Evan N. Patel, Ekta Sacchi, Elena Sohn, Sangmo Tony Astrophysics of Galaxies We present deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry of ten targets from Treasury Program GO-14734, including six confirmed ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs), three UFD candidates, and one likely globular cluster. Six of these targets are satellites of, or have interacted with, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We determine their structural parameters using a maximum-likelihood technique. Using our newly derived half-light radius ($r_h$) and $V$-band magnitude ($M_V$) values in addition to literature values for other UFDs, we find that UFDs associated with the LMC do not show any systematic differences from Milky Way UFDs in the magnitude-size plane. Additionally, we convert simulated UFD properties from the literature into the $M_V-r_h$ observational space to examine the abilities of current dark matter (DM) and baryonic simulations to reproduce observed UFDs. Some of these simulations adopt alternative DM models, thus allowing us to also explore whether the $M_V-r_h$ plane could be used to constrain the nature of DM. We find no differences in the magnitude-size plane between UFDs simulated with cold, warm, and self-interacting dark matter, but note that the sample of UFDs simulated with alternative DM models is quite limited at present. As more deep, wide-field survey data become available, we will have further opportunities to discover and characterize these ultra-faint stellar systems and the greater low surface-brightness universe. |
| title | Deep Hubble Space Telescope Photometry of LMC and Milky Way Ultra-Faint Dwarfs: A careful look into the magnitude-size relation |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08731 |