Neutral Hydrogen and the Missing Satellites of the Local Group

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2001-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110417v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages (incl. 5 figures), to appear in "Extragalactic Gas at Low Redshift", ed. J. Mulchaey & J. Stocke, ASP conference seri

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We present a comparison of the leftover satellites at z=0 in a cold dark matter dominated simulation of the formation of the Local Group to the distribution of observed neutral hydrogen high-velocity clouds and compact high-velocity clouds. The ~2000 leftover satellites in the simulation have dark matter masses which range between 0.5 to 10 x 10^9 Msun, sizes between 3 to 30 kpc, and distances between 100 kpc and 2 Mpc. The dark matter halos show a clear bias in their distribution towards M31 and to a lesser extent towards the Local Group anti-barycenter. If the Local Group halos contain ~1% of their dark matter mass in neutral hydrogen they should have been easily detected by the current HI surveys. The only HI objects detected with the potential to be the Local Group halos are the high-velocity clouds. Here the spatial, kinematic, and HI flux properties of the clouds and dark matter halos are compared. Several different subsets of halos which may be more likely to contain neutral hydrogen are investigated, and the HVCs are found to have some similar properties to those halos within 500 kpc of the Galaxy and those halos with dark matter masses > 2 x 10^8 Msun. The compact high-velocity clouds do not show similar properties to the halos.

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