Dwarfmology
| dc.creator | Driver, Simon P. | |
| dc.creator | Fernandez-Soto, Alberto | |
| dc.date | 1998-05-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:26:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:26:52Z | |
| dc.description | We address two important cosmological questions relating to dwarf galaxies: (1) What is their contribution to the field galaxy baryon budget; and (2) what is their contribution to the faint blue galaxy problem. Both of these are addressed empirically from a complete photometric redshift catalogue derived from the Hubble Deep Field. The answer to the first question is: very little (<1%), and to the second: a small but non-negligible amount (10% at b = 24 mags rising to 30% at b = 28 mags). Hence the cosmological significance of dwarf galaxies, from a purely baryon-centric perspective, lies in their contribution to the formation and assembly phase of the giant galaxies - where perhaps they did once dominate the baryon budget. | |
| dc.description | To be published in proceedings of the XVIIIth Moriond meeting on "Dwarf Galaxies and Cosmology", Eds Thuan et al, Publ: Editions Frontiers | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805100 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805100 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/12451 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Dwarfmology | |
| dc.type | text |