Publications (33)
SWIFT: A modern highly-parallel gravity and smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for astrophysical and cosmological applications
Matthieu Schaller, Josh Borrow, Peter W. Draper +24
Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest ex…
The link between galaxy and black hole growth in the EAGLE simulation
Stuart McAlpine, Richard G. Bower, Chris M. Harrison +4
We investigate the connection between the star formation rate (SFR) of galaxies and their central black hole accretion rate (BHAR) using the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simul…
SIBELIUS-DARK: a galaxy catalogue of the Local Volume from a constrained realisation simulation
Stuart McAlpine, John C. Helly, Matthieu Schaller +7
We present SIBELIUS-DARK, a constrained realisation simulation of the local volume to a distance of 200~Mpc from the Milky Way. SIBELIUS-DARK is the first study of the \textit{Simu…
Supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations I: M_BH-M_star relation and black hole mass function
Melanie Habouzit, Yuan Li, Rachel S. Somerville +15
The past decade has seen significant progress in understanding galaxy formation and evolution using large-scale cosmological simulations. While these simulations produce galaxies i…
Galaxy mergers in EAGLE do not induce a significant amount of black hole growth yet do increase the rate of luminous AGN
Stuart McAlpine, Chris M. Harrison, David J. Rosario +4
We investigate the connection between galaxy--galaxy mergers and enhanced black hole (BH) growth using the cosmological hydrodynamical EAGLE simulation. We do this via three method…
The nature of sub-millimeter and highly star-forming galaxies in the EAGLE simulation
Stuart McAlpine, Ian Smail, Richard G. Bower +7
We exploit EAGLE, a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, to reproduce the selection of the observed sub-millimeter (submm) galaxy population by selecting the model galaxies at $…
The abundances and properties of Dual AGN and their host galaxies in the EAGLE simulations
Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Richard Bower, Stuart McAlpine +2
We look into the abundance of Dual AGN in the largest hydrodynamical simulation from the EAGLE project. We define a Dual AGN as two active black holes (BHs) with a separation below…
The rapid growth phase of supermassive black holes
Stuart McAlpine, Richard G. Bower, David J. Rosario +3
We investigate the rapid growth phase of supermassive black holes (BHs) within the hydrodynamical cosmological \eagle simulation. This non-linear phase of BH growth occurs within $…
The Manticore-Local Cluster Catalogue: A Posterior Map of Massive Structures in the Nearby Universe
Stuart McAlpine
We present a publicly available catalogue of massive structures in the nearby Universe, constructed from the Manticore-Local posterior ensemble, a Bayesian field-level reconstructi…
Setting the Stage: Structures from Gaussian Random Fields
Till Sawala, Adrian Jenkins, Stuart McAlpine +4
We study structure formation in a set of cosmological simulations to uncover the scales in the initial density field that gave rise to the formation of present-day structures. Our…
The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: public release of halo and galaxy catalogues
Stuart McAlpine, John C. Helly, Matthieu Schaller +16
We present the public data release of halo and galaxy catalogues extracted from the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. These simulations we…
Learning the Universe: Constrained simulations of the Coma galaxy cluster -- I. Radial X-ray and Compton-y signatures
Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Stuart McAlpine, Richard Stiskalek +7
We present a suite of 50 high-fidelity simulations of Coma cluster analogues constructed from BORG/MANTICORE constrained initial conditions and evolved with the IllustrisTNG galaxy…
The Manticore Project I: a digital twin of our cosmic neighbourhood from Bayesian field-level analysis
Stuart McAlpine, Jens Jasche, Metin Ata +4
We present the first results from the Manticore project, dubbed Manticore-Local, a suite of Bayesian constrained simulations of the nearby Universe, generated by fitting a physical…
Revisiting the Great Attractor: The Local Group's streamline trajectory, cosmic velocity and dynamical fate
Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond, Stuart McAlpine +3
We revisit the Great Attractor using the Manticore-Local suite of digital twins of the nearby Universe. The Great Attractor concept has been proposed as an answer to three distinct…
The gas fractions of dark matter haloes hosting simulated galaxies are governed by the feedback history of their black holes
Jonathan J. Davies, Robert A. Crain, Ian G. McCarthy +4
We examine the origin of scatter in the relationship between the gas fraction and mass of dark matter haloes hosting present-day central galaxies in the EAGLE simula…
The SIBELIUS Project: E Pluribus Unum
Till Sawala, Stuart McAlpine, Jens Jasche +4
We introduce "Simulations Beyond The Local Universe" (SIBELIUS) that connect the Local Group to its cosmic environment. We show that introducing hierarchical small-scale perturbati…
Supermassive black holes in the EAGLE Universe. Revealing the observables of their growth
Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Richard G. Bower, Joop Schaye +5
We investigate the evolution of supermassive black holes in the `Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments' (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. The large…
Music from the heavens - Gravitational waves from supermassive black hole mergers in the EAGLE simulations
Jaime Salcido, Richard G. Bower, Tom Theuns +5
We estimate the expected event rate of gravitational wave signals from mergers of supermassive black holes that could be resolved by a space-based interferometer, such as the Evolv…
The aftermath of the Great Collision between our Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud
Marius Cautun, Alis J. Deason, Carlos S. Frenk +1
The Milky Way (MW) offers a uniquely detailed view of galactic structure and is often regarded as a prototypical spiral galaxy. But recent observations indicate that the MW is atyp…
Data release of UV to submm broadband fluxes for simulated galaxies from the EAGLE project
Peter Camps, Ana TrÄka, James Trayford +6
We present dust-attenuated and dust emission fluxes for sufficiently resolved galaxies in the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, calculated with the SKIRT radi…
Evolution of the cold gas properties of simulated post-starburst galaxies
Timothy A. Davis, Freeke van de Voort, Kate Rowlands +3
Post-starburst galaxies are typically considered to be a transition population, en route to the red sequence after a recent quenching event. Despite this, recent observations have…
A Bayesian catalog of 100 high-significance voids in the Local Universe
Rosa Malandrino, Guilhem Lavaux, Benjamin D. Wandelt +2
While cosmic voids are now recognized as a valuable cosmological probe, identifying them in a galaxy catalog is challenging for multiple reasons: observational effects such as hole…
Modelling the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole binaries in gas-rich galaxy mergers
Shihong Liao, Peter H. Johansson, Matias Mannerkoski +6
We introduce a new model for the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries to the KETJU code, which enables us to resolve the evolution of SMBH binaries dow…
The Manticore Project II: Bayesian digital twins of cosmic structure across the SDSS and BOSS volumes
Stuart McAlpine, Jens Jasche, Guilhem Lavaux +2
We present Manticore-Deep, a high-resolution Bayesian field-level reconstruction of cosmic large-scale structure over a comoving volume of to $z\approx…
Reconstructing the largest scales of the Universe with field-level inference applied to the Quaia Quasar Catalogue
Adam Andrews, Arthur Loureiro, Jens Jasche +3
The recently released Quaia quasar catalogue, with its broad redshift range and all-sky coverage, enables unprecedented three-dimensional reconstructions of matter across cosmic ti…
Illuminating the Local Universe: Large-Scale Structure from ZTF Type Ia Supernovae
Antoine Gilles Lordet, Ariel Goobar, Jens Jasche +12
Within the volume-limited subsample at of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) DR2 sample, we confirm a statistically significant excess of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at $…
Interacting galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulations -- I: Triggered star formation in a cosmological context
David R. Patton, Kieran D. Wilson, Colin J. Metrow +7
We use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate how the specific star formation rates (sSFRs) of massive galaxies depend on…
Supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations II: the AGN population and predictions for upcoming X-ray missions
Melanie Habouzit, Rachel S. Somerville, Yuan Li +13
In large-scale hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, the fate of massive galaxies is mainly dictated by the modeling of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN). The amount of…
The Milky Way's plane of satellites: consistent with CDM
Till Sawala, Marius Cautun, Carlos S. Frenk +7
The "plane of satellites problem" describes the arrangement of the Milky Way's 11 brightest satellite galaxies in a remarkably thin plane, possibly supported by rotation. This is i…
The dark nemesis of galaxy formation: why hot haloes trigger black hole growth and bring star formation to an end
Richard Bower, Joop Schaye, Carlos S. Frenk +4
Galaxies fall into two clearly distinct types: `blue-sequence' galaxies that are rapidly forming young stars, and `red-sequence' galaxies in which star formation has almost complet…
Two per cent measurement of from Cepheids alone
Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond, Eleni Tsaprazi +4
One of the most pressing problems in current cosmology is the cause of the Hubble tension. We revisit a two-rung distance ladder, composed only of Cepheid periods and magnitudes, a…
The Star-Formation Properties of the Observed and Simulated AGN Universe: BAT vs EAGLE
Thomas M. Jackson, D. J. Rosario, D. M. Alexander +3
In this paper we present data from 72 low redshift, hard X-ray selected AGN taken from the {\it Swift}-BAT 58 month catalogue. We utilise spectral energy distribution fitting to th…
A chronicle of galaxy mass assembly in the EAGLE simulation
Yan Qu, John C. Helly, Richard G. Bower +8
We analyse the mass assembly of central galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. We build merger trees to connect galaxies to their progenitors at different redshifts and…