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What dwarf galaxies tell us about galaxy formation and cosmology

Michael Blanton (NYU)

Dwarf galaxies in the field might be the simplest systems we have for testing galaxy formation physics: they are isolated from major recent mergers, they have had very little star-formation and remain mostly gas, and they are all disks with no bulges and small amounts of dust. I discuss their properties using a sample from the SDSS with follow-up 21cm observations. In addition, I use their Tully-Fisher relationship and luminosity function to put quantitative constraints on the mass of the dark matter particle.