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Table 2.

Low-mass spiral galaxies and their number of satellite galaxies within the virial radius.

MK M*, host vrot, flat Observed Predicted (Brook14) Predicted (GK17)
Name (mag) (109M) (km s−1) (Mtot > 105M) (Mtot > 105M) (Mtot > 105M)
NGC 24 −20.3 1.6 106 ± 81 0–2 1–3 2–6
NGC 45 −20.0 1.2 100 ± 12 0 0–3 2–5
NGC 1156* −20.0 1.2 75 ± 43 1–3 0–2 1–4
NGC 2403 −21.3 4.1 131 ± 54 2 2–5 4–8
NGC 5023 −19.2 0.6 88 ± 55 0–1 0–2 1–4
M 33+ −20.8 2.6 124 ± 116 0–1 1–3
LMC −20.2 1.5 92 ± 197 1 0–2 1–4

Notes. The MK magnitudes were taken from the Local Volume catalog (Karachentsev et al. 2013). The baryonic mass M*, host of the galaxy is derived from MK and a mass-to-light ratio of 0.6 (Lelli et al. 2017) and a solar K-band luminosity of K = 3.28 mag (Binney & Merrifield 1998). The flat rotation velocity vrot, flat corresponds to the flat part of the host galaxy rotation curve. The references for vrot, flat are (1) Dicaire et al. (2008); (2) Chemin et al. (2006); (3) Karachentsev & Petit (1990); (4) Daigle et al. (2006); (5) Kamphuis et al. (2013); (6) Corbelli et al. (2014); (7) van der Marel & Kallivayalil (2014). We calculated the mean value of the flat part of the rotation curve ourselves when not explicitly given in these references. The observed number of satellites must be considered a lower limit. The predicted number of satellites comes from the assumed stellar-to-halo mass model relation by Brook14 (Brook et al. 2014) and GK17 (Garrison-Kimmel et al. 2017) in Dooley et al. (2017) for dwarf galaxies more massive than 105M. (*) For NGC 1156 no ΛCDM prediction of the number of satellites is available. Here we assume the same number as for NGC 5023 due to their similar vrot, flat. (+) For M 33 we use the prediction by Patel et al. (2018) who adapted the Dooley et al. (2017) predictions for the LMC with a GK17 model.

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