Extended Data Fig. 5: 2PCCFs with satellite contamination.
From: Unexpected clustering pattern in dwarf galaxies challenges formation models
Blue and red solid curves represent the 2PCCFs for diffuse and compact dwarf galaxies, respectively, while dotted curves show the impact of different levels of satellite contamination on these dwarfs. Satellite contamination can notably amplify small-scale clustering, while it moderately enhances large-scale clustering for compact dwarfs and leaves the large-scale clustering unchanged for diffuse dwarfs. Note that the wine and cyan dotted lines show the results including all compact and diffuse satellite dwarfs, respectively. Thus, satellite contamination cannot explain the strong large-scale clustering observed in isolated diffuse dwarfs. Error bars represent 16th–84th percentiles of bootstrap samples.
