My projects
I have worked on a wide range of topics concerning dwarf galaxies, the Local Universe, and dark matter. Please click on the images below for more details.
01
Diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves
The mass discrepancy-acceleration relation; the "core-cusp" problem; the contribution of baryons to the potential; mock-observation and modelling of dwarf rotation curves; CDM, SIDM and MOND.
02
The Milky Way's satellites
Predicting the total "unabridged" satellite population around MW-mass halos in a LCDM framework; the contribution of "orphan" galaxies to MW halos; modelling dark matter and stellar tidal stripping.
03
Local group dwarfs
Backsplash galaxies of the MW and M31; the local Hubble Flow; Tucana dSph and M33; predictions for field, isolated LG dwarf galaxy searches.
04
Magellanic satellites
The impact of late accretions of massive satellites on the MW halo; LMC analogs in Local Group environments; diagnostics to identify LMC-associated satellites in the MW.
05
Planes of satellites
Identification and characterisation of planes of satellites in the MW and M31, as well as in cosmological simulations; kinematically-coherent long-living satellite planes; origin of planes as driven by the early evolution of the local Cosmic Web in LCDM.
06
The faint end of the Mstar-Mhalo relation
The minimum halo mass for galaxy formation; impact of the shape of the Mstar-Mhalo relation on the predicted satellite luminosity function around MW-mass and LMC-mass hosts.
07
Dark matter particles in the solar neighborhood
Velocity distribution of Milky Way dark matter particles in the solar neighborhood; modelling the maximum "terminal" velocity of dark matter particles; direct detection halo models.