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cd-sIn In the Local Group, nearly all of the dwarf galaxies ($\mstar<10^9\msun$) that are satellites within $300\kpc$ (the virial radius) of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) have quiescent star formation and little-to-no cold gas.
This contrasts strongly with more isolated dwarf galaxies, which are almost all actively star-forming and gas-rich.
This near dichotomy implies that environmental processes within the halos of the MW and M31 \emph{rapidly} remove gas and quench star formation in satellite dwarfs after infall.
We combine the observed quiescent fractions for satellites of the MW/M31 with the virial-infall times of satellites in the ELVIS suite of cosmological simulations of MW/M31-like halos to determine the typical timescales over which environmental processes quench satellite dwarf
galaxies after infall. galaxies.
The quenching timescales at $\mstar<10^8\msun$ are
short: short, $< 2 - 3 \gyr$,
comparable to a virial crossing time.
This timescale depends depending somewhat on whether environmental preprocessing in lower-mass groups
prior to MW/M31 infall is
important. important, and are comparable to a virial-radius crossing time.
We compare with timescales for more massive satellites from the literature, which
suggests implies that environmental quenching timescale increases rapidly with satellite mass to
$\approx 9.5\gyr$ $\approx9.5\gyr$ at
$\mstar \approx 10 ^ 9 \msun$ $\mstar\approx 10^9\msun$, but
it then rapidly decreases with mass to $<5\gyr$ at $\mstar>5\times 10^9\msun$.
Thus, satellites with masses similar to the Magellanic Clouds exhibit the longest environmental quenching timescales.