Bibcode
Di Cintio, A.; Brook, C. B. A.; Dutton, A. A.; Macciò, A. V.; Obreja, A.; Dekel, A.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16-20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain, ISBN 978-84-09-09331-1. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schödel, E. Villaver, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Ordóñez-Etxeberria (eds.) p. 116-121
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2019
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A large number of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) has been detected over
the past few years, both in clusters and in isolation. UDGs have stellar
masses typical of dwarf galaxies but effective radii of Milky Way-sized
objects, and their origin remains puzzling. Using hydrodynamical zoom-in
simulations from the NIHAO project we show that UDGs form naturally in
dwarf-mass haloes, as a result of episodic gas outflows associated with
star formation. The simulated UDGs live in isolated haloes of masses
10^{10-11}M_⊙, have stellar masses of 10^{7-8.5}M_⊙, effective
radii larger than 1 kpc and dark matter cores. Remarkably, they have a
non-negligible HI gas mass of 10^{7-9}M_⊙, which correlates with the
extent of the galaxy. Gas availability is crucial to the internal
processes that form UDGs: feedback driven gas outflows, and subsequent
dark matter and stellar expansion, are the key to reproduce
faint, yet unusually extended, galaxies. This scenario implies that UDGs
represent a dwarf population of low surface brightness galaxies and that
they should exist in the field. Several predictions and
comparisons with stat-of-the-art observational data will be presented.
Amongst other, we will show that the largest isolated UDGs
sistematically contain more HI gas than less extended dwarfs of similar
\mstar, corroborating our proposed formation scenario.