Testing the validity of backward orbit reconstruction for outer Local Group dwarf galaxies in IllustrisTNG-100

arXiv:2607.08831 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-09 · Read on arXiv

Priyanka Verma, Ekta Patel, Louis E. Strigari

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-09

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Local Group — 13× in this paper
• Reconstruction Error — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Orbits of Milky Way — 2× in this paper
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hubble Space Telescope — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Machine Learning the Dark Matter Halo Mass of the Milky Way
• Local Group analogues in a cosmological context -- I. Relating velocity structure to the cosmic web

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