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Publications (8)

astro-ph.GA2024

Effects of multi-channel AGN feedback in FIRE cosmological simulations of massive galaxies

Lindsey Byrne, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Sarah Wellons +6

Feedback from supermassive black holes is believed to be a critical driver of the observed color bimodality of galaxies above the Milky Way mass scale. AGN feedback has been modele…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Last Journey. II. SMACC -- Subhalo Mass-loss Analysis using Core Catalogs

Imran Sultan, Nicholas Frontiere, Salman Habib +4

This paper introduces SMACC -- Subhalo Mass-loss Analysis using Core Catalogs. SMACC adds a mass model to substructure merger trees based on halo "core tracking." Our approach avoi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cold vs. Hot Gas Accretion and Angular Momentum in FIRE Simulations: From Halo to Galaxy Scales

Imran Sultan, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Jonathan Stern +1

We present a systematic study of gas accretion and angular momentum in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) using high-resolution FIRE cosmological simulations. Our analysis includes ha…

astro-ph.GA2024

Ne VIII in the warm-hot circumgalactic medium of FIRE simulations and in observations

Nastasha A. Wijers, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Jonathan Stern +2

The properties of warm-hot gas around galaxies can be studied with absorption lines from highly ionized metals. We predict Ne VIII column densities from cosmological z…

astro-ph.GA2025

Cooling Flows as a Reference Solution for the Hot Circumgalactic Medium

Imran Sultan, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Jonathan Stern +3

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) in halos is dominated by a hot phase ( K). While many models exist for the hot gas structur…

astro-ph.GA2026

Hot accretion onto spiral galaxies: the origin of extended and warped HI discs

Sriram Sankar, Jonathan Stern, Chris Power +6

Gas accretion, hot ( K) atmospheres, and a tilt between the rotation axes of the disc and the atmosphere are all common predictions of standard galaxy evolution theory f…

astro-ph.CO2022

Farpoint: A High-Resolution Cosmology Simulation at the Gigaparsec Scale

Nicholas Frontiere, Katrin Heitmann, Esteban Rangel +7

In this paper we introduce the Farpoint simulation, the latest member of the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC) gravity-only simulation family. The domain covers a v…

astro-ph.CO2021

The Last Journey. I. An Extreme-Scale Simulation on the Mira Supercomputer

Katrin Heitmann, Nicholas Frontiere, Esteban Rangel +10

The Last Journey is a large-volume, gravity-only, cosmological N-body simulation evolving more than 1.24 trillion particles in a periodic box with a side-length of 5.025Gpc. It was…