Dark Satellites and Cosmic Reionization

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2006-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609146v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 8 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the XLIst Rencontres de Moriond, XXVIth Astrophysics Moriond Meeting: "Fro

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A possible explanation of the present discrepancy between the abundance of galactic subhaloes predicted by N-Body simulations with those observed in the Local Group is presented. We study the impact of an early reionization on the baryonic component of the Universe using SPH simulations on group and galactic scales. We use a simplified model for reionization described as an instantaneous increment of the IGM temperature (with 1e5 8). We find that a key role is played by compton cooling (interaction between hot electrons and the CMB photons); at high redshift (z_r>10) this cooling is very efficient and it is able to counteract any heating of the gas within few Myrs. This means that a late reionization is needed (z_r<9) to sufficiently reduce the number of luminous dwarf satellites around our Galaxy. For a reionization redshift z_r=8 and a reionization temperature of T_{IGM}~1e5 K we are able to reproduce the observed number of Local Group dwarf galaxies in our simulations.

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