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Local Group Dwarf Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2019

Andrew A. Cole
Andrew A. Cole*
Affiliation:
School of Natural Sciences, University of TasmaniaPrivate Bag 37, Hobart, TAS 7005Australia email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Local Group dwarf galaxies are a unique astrophysical laboratory because they are the only objects in which we can reliably and precisely characterize the star formation histories of low-mass galaxies going back to the epoch of reionization. There are of order 100 known galaxies less massive than the Small Magellanic Cloud within ~1 Megaparsec of the Milky Way, with a vide variety of star formation history, gas content, and mass to light ratios. In this overview the current understanding of the formation and evolution of low-mass galaxies across cosmic time will be presented, and the possibility of drawing links between the properties of individual systems and the broader Local Group and cosmological context will be discussed. Local Group dwarfs will remain a uniquely powerful testbed to constrain the properties of dark matter and to evaluate the performance of simulations for the foreseeable future.

Keywords

Local Groupgalaxies: dwarf
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. 29 - 37
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

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