The Impact of Simulation Resolution on Dwarf Galaxy Stellar Stream Populations in FIRE

arXiv:2610.00578 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-10-02

Terminology

• Velocity Dispersion — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feedback in Realistic Environments — 1× in this paper
• Observational Selection Effects — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Stellar Streams in the Gaia Era
• The Dynamical Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters
• Stellar tidal streams around nearby spiral galaxies with deep imaging from amateur telescopes
• A near field guide to Roman's wide-area surveys
• Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

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