Islands no more: how do mergers affect galaxies and their satellites?
Event Start:
2021-05-26T10:00:00
Event End:
2021-05-26T11:00:00
Event Information:
Large, disk-dominated galaxies like the Milky Way live in the center of vast ecosystems - dark matter, circumgalactic gas, and satellite galaxies. This ecosystem and the large galaxies in them grow hierarchically through merging. Yet, in our pictures of the evolution of galaxies like the Milky Way and the study of their satellites as probes of dark matter and small-scale cosmology merging generally plays a peripheral role. What do the mergers of these ecosystems and the galaxies in them do to galaxies like our own?
Event Location:
Online
Speaker:
Eric Bell (University of Michigan)
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Event Start:
2021-05-26T10:00:00
Event End:
2021-05-26T11:00:00
Islands no more: how do mergers affect galaxies and their satellites?
Event Information:
Large, disk-dominated galaxies like the Milky Way live in the center of vast ecosystems - dark matter, circumgalactic gas, and satellite galaxies. This ecosystem and the large galaxies in them grow hierarchically through merging. Yet, in our pictures of the evolution of galaxies like the Milky Way and the study of their satellites as probes of dark matter and small-scale cosmology merging generally plays a peripheral role. What do the mergers of these ecosystems and the galaxies in them do to galaxies like our own?
Event Location:
Online