ELVES-Dwarf. II. A Systematic Search for Satellite Systems of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume

arXiv:2609.00283 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Project page: https://elves-surveys.github.io/elves-dwarf

Terminology

• Abundance — 25× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 21× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Milky Way — 10× in this paper
• Aperture — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan — 4× in this paper
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Environmental Quenching — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cooperation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dark Energy Survey — 2× in this paper
• Hyper Suprime-Cam — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Baryonic Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — 1× in this paper
• Large Magellanic Cloud — 1× in this paper
• Magellanic Analog Dwarf Companions And Stellar Halos — 1× in this paper
• NOIRLab and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — 1× in this paper
• Small Magellanic Cloud — 1× in this paper
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• United States National Science Foundation — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Surface Brightness Fluctuations
• A Sample of Nearby Isolated Dwarf Galaxies: A First Look at the Mass Function of Field Dwarfs
• ELVES-Field: Isolated Dwarf Galaxy Quenched Fractions Rise Below $M_* \approx 10^7$ $M_\odot$
• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• The LBT Satellites of Nearby Galaxies Survey (LBT-SONG): The Diffuse Satellite Population of Local Volume Hosts
• Report of the Topical Group on Cosmic Probes of Dark Matter for Snowmass 2021
• The Keck/DEIMOS Stellar Archive: II. Dynamical Masses and Metallicities for a Uniform Sample of Milky Way Satellites
• ID-MAGE II: The Star Forming Satellites of Low-Mass Hosts
• The dwarf spheroidal galaxy DDO 44: stellar populations and distance
• Groups of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe
• Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report
• Baryonic Masses and Properties of Gaseous Satellite Galaxies

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