What Sets the Metallicity of Ultra-Faint Dwarfs?

We use intergalactic medium (IGM) metallicity distributions from several state-of-the-art cosmological simulations of Milky Way analogs and a semi-analytic model of ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) formation to model the stellar metallicities of UFDs in MW-like environments. We study simulations with...

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Published in:The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Main Authors: Vance Wheeler, Andrey Kravtsov, Anirudh Chiti, Harley Katz, Vadim A. Semenov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Maynooth Academic Publishing 2025-10-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.145734