Gas and star formation in Galaxy satellites

DOI

We have imaged the entirety of eight (plus one partial) Milky Way (MW)-like satellite systems, a total of 42 (45) satellites, from the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs II catalog in both H{alpha} and HI with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the Jansky Very Large Array. In these eight systems we have identified four cases where a satellite appears to be currently undergoing ram pressure stripping (RPS) as its HI gas collides with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of its host. We also see a clear suppression of gas fraction (M_HI_/M*) with decreasing (projected) satellite-host separation-to our knowledge, the first time this has been observed in a sample of MW-like systems. Comparisons to the Auriga, A Project Of Simulating The Local Environment, and TNG50 cosmological zoom-in simulations show consistent global behavior, but they systematically underpredict gas fractions across all satellites by roughly 0.5 dex. Using a simplistic RPS model, we estimate the average peak CGM density that satellites in these systems have encountered to be log{rho}cgm~-27.3g/cm^3^. Furthermore, we see tentative evidence that these satellites are following a specific star formation rate to gas fraction relation that is distinct from field galaxies. Finally, we detect one new gas-rich satellite in the UGC 903 system with an optical size and surface brightness meeting the standard criteria to be considered an ultra- diffuse galaxy.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/966/93/table2 (Satellite HI and Star Formation Properties)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.19660093
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Provenance
Creator Jones M.G.; Sand D.J.; Karunakaran A.; Spekkens K.; Oman K.A.; Bennet P.,Besla G.; Crnojevic D.; Cuillandre J.-C.; Fielder C.E.; Gwyn S.,Mutlu-Pakdil B.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2024
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy