Notes on the missing satellites problem

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James Bullock

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James Bullock: Affiliation:
University of California Irvine
David Martínez-Delgado: Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg

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The Missing Satellites Problem (MSP) broadly refers to the overabundance of predicted Cold Dark Matter (CDM) sub-halos compared to satellite galaxies known to exist in the Local Group. The most popular interpretation of the MSP is that the smallest dark matter halos in the universe are extremely inefficient at forming stars. The question from that standpoint is to identify the feedback source that makes small halos dark and to identify any obvious mass scale where the truncation in the efficiency of galaxy formation occurs.

Among the most exciting developments in near-field cosmology in recent years is the discovery of a new population satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way and M31. Wide field, resolved star surveys have more than doubled the dwarf satellite count in less than a decade, revealing a population of ultra faint galaxies that are less luminous that some star clusters. For the first time, there are empirical reasons to believe that there really are more than 100 missing satellite galaxies in the Local Group, lurking just beyond our ability to detect them, or simply inhabiting a region of the sky that has yet to be surveyed.

Remarkably, both kinematic studies and completeness-correction studies seem to point to a characteristic potential well depth for satellite sub-halos that is quite close to the mass scale where photoionization and atomic cooling should limit galaxy formation. Among the more pressing problems associated with this interpretation is to understand the selection biases that limit our ability to detect the lowest mass galaxies.

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Information: Local Group Cosmology , pp. 95 - 122

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