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Dwarf Galaxies as Cosmological Probes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2019

Julio F. Navarro
Julio F. Navarro*
Affiliation:
CIfAR Senior Fellow and Professor. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CanadaV8P 5C2 email: jfn@uvic.ca
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The Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) paradigm makes specific predictions for the abundance, structure, substructure and clustering of dark matter halos, the sites of galaxy formation. These predictions can be directly tested, in the low-mass halo regime, by dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies. A number of potential challenges to LCDM have been identified when confronting the expected properties of dwarfs with observation. I review our understanding of a few of these issues, including the “missing satellites” and the “too-big-to-fail” problems, and argue that neither poses an insurmountable challenge to LCDM. Solving these problems requires that most dwarf galaxies inhabit halos of similar mass, and that there is a relatively sharp minimum halo mass threshold to form luminous galaxies. These predictions are eminently falsifiable. In particular, LCDM predicts a large number of “dark” low-mass halos, some of which should have retained enough primordial gas to be detectable in deep 21 cm or Hα surveys. Detecting this predicted population of “mini-halos” would be a major discovery and a resounding success for LCDM on small scales.

Keywords

Cosmology: dark matterGalaxies: dwarfGalaxies: formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S344: Dwarf Galaxies: From the Deep Universe to the Present , August 2018 , pp. 455 - 463
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

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