The impact of the local stellar radiation on the formation and evolution of dwarfs in and near Milky Way analogue (2410.16176v1)

Abstract: We explore the effect of local stellar radiation on the formation and evolution of the dwarf galaxies near the Milk Way(MW) analogues. Using five simulations from the Auriga project, both with and without local stellar radiation, we find that the local stellar radiation, as a pre-reionization source, is quite effective to photoionize and heat the gas around the proto-MW analogues. As a result, the formation of surrounding dwarf galaxies in dark matter halos with halo masses below approximately $10^{9.5}\,\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ are significantly suppressed. After the reionization, the intensity of the local stellar radiation eventually becomes comparable to that of UVB, consequently the impact of local stellar radiation on the surrounding dwarf galaxy formation decreases with decreasing redshift, and almost vanishes after redshift $z=4$. At present day, the bright satellite population in the simulations with and without local stellar radiation is nearly identical. While our simulation have no enough resolution to resolve the fainest satellite galaxies which are most prone to the local stellar radiation, we use accreted galaxy mass function to assess the impact, and find that the reduction in the faintest satellite is around $13$ percent in case of the local stellar radiation, a factor not negligible to constrain dark matter models using the precise abundance of MW satellite galaxies.