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astro-ph.GA2018★ 103 cited

Hot Atmospheres, Cold Gas, AGN Feedback and the Evolution of Early Type Galaxies: a Topical Perspective

N. Werner, B. R. McNamara, E. Churazov +1

Most galaxies comparable to or larger than the mass of the Milky Way host hot, X-ray emitting atmospheres, and many such galaxies are radio sources. Hot atmospheres and radio jets…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 2 cited

Search for HI emission from superdisk candidates associated with radio galaxies

Abhijeet Anand, Nirupam Roy, Gopal-Krishna

Giant gaseous layers (termed "superdisk") have been hypothesized in the past to account for the strip-like radio emission gap (or straight-edged central brightness depression) obse…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 86 cited

Chandra centres for COSMOS X-ray galaxy groups: Differences in stellar properties between central dominant and offset brightest group galaxies

Ghassem Gozaliasl, Alexis Finoguenov, Masayuki Tanaka +24

We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters and groups in the square degree of the COSMOS field using all available X-ray observations from the XMM-Newton and Ch…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

Orbit properties of massive prolate galaxies in the Illustris simulation

Yougang Wang, Shude Mao, Hongyu Li +3

We explore orbit properties of 35 prolate-triaxial galaxies selected from the Illustris cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. We present a detailed study of their orbit families, a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 294 cited

The star-formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics

Martina Donnari, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson +6

We select galaxies from the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical simulations ( at ) and characterize the shapes and evolutions of their UVJ and star-format…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 18 cited

The IllustrisTNG Simulations: Public Data Release

Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel, Annalisa Pillepich +11

We present the full public release of all data from the TNG50, TNG100 and TNG300 simulations of the IllustrisTNG project. IllustrisTNG is a suite of large volume, cosmological, gra…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 49 cited

The simultaneous formation of cored, tangentially biased, and kinematically decoupled centers in massive early-type galaxies

Antti Rantala, Peter H. Johansson, Thorsten Naab +2

We study the impact of merging supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on the central regions of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) using a series of merger simulations with varying mass…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 13 cited

Timescales for Hi consumption and SFR depletion of satellite galaxies in groups

Mika Rafieferantsoa, Romeel Davé, Thorsten Naab

We investigate the connection between the HI~content, SFR and environment of galaxies using a hydrodynamic simulation that incorporates scaling relations for galactic wind and a he…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 28 cited

The impact of AGN on stellar kinematics and orbits in simulated massive galaxies

Matteo Frigo, Thorsten Naab, Michaela Hirschmann +5

We present a series of 20 cosmological zoom simulations of the formation of massive galaxies with and without a model for AGN feedback. Differences in stellar population and kinema…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 147 cited

Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations: I. Gas-stripping phenomena in the full cosmological context

Kiyun Yun, Annalisa Pillepich, Elad Zinger +8

We use IllustrisTNG, a suite of gravity and MHD simulations, to study the demographics and properties of jellyfish galaxies in the full cosmological context. By jellyfish galaxies,…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 586 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - II. First data release

T. W. Shimwell, C. Tasse, M. J. Hardcastle +104

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an ongoing sensitive, high-resolution 120-168MHz survey of the entire northern sky for which observations are now 20% complete. We present…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 82 cited

Synthetic nebular emission from massive galaxies II: ultraviolet-line diagnostics of dominant ionizing sources

Michaela Hirschmann, Stéphane Charlot, Anna Feltre +3

We compute synthetic optical and ultraviolet (UV) emission-line properties of galaxies in a full cosmological framework by coupling, in post-processing, new-generation nebular-emis…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 32 cited

Inner bars also buckle. The MUSE TIMER view of the double-barred galaxy NGC 1291

J. Mendez-Abreu, A. de Lorenzo-Caceres, D. A. Gadotti +8

Double bars are thought to be important features for secular evolution in the central regions of galaxies. However, observational evidence about their origin and evolution is still…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 38 cited

Resolving on 100 pc scales the UV-continuum in Lyman- emitters between redshift 2 to 3 with gravitational lensing

E. Ritondale, M. W. Auger, S. Vegetti +1

We present a study of seventeen LAEs at redshift 23 gravitationally lensed by massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) at a mean redshift of approximately 0.5. Using a fully Bayesia…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 125 cited

Zooming in on accretion - II. Cold Circumgalactic Gas Simulated with a super-Lagrangian Refinement Scheme

Joshua Suresh, Dylan Nelson, Shy Genel +2

In this study we explore the complex multi-phase gas of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies. We propose and implement a novel, super-Lagrangian 'CGM zoom' scheme i…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 69 cited

Subhalo destruction in the Apostle and Auriga simulations

Jack Richings, Carlos Frenk, Adrian Jenkins +7

N-body simulations make unambiguous predictions for the abundance of substructures within dark matter halos. However, the inclusion of baryons in the simulations changes the pictur…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 20 cited

On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities

Nassim Bozorgnia, Azadeh Fattahi, David G. Cerdeno +5

The dark matter velocity distribution in the Solar neighbourhood is an important astrophysical input which enters in the predicted event rate of dark matter direct detection experi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 47 cited

Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: I. Galaxy correlations and the impact of baryons

Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dandan Xu +10

We explore the isothermal total density profiles of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the IllustrisTNG simulation. For the selected 559 ETGs at with stellar mass $10^{10.7}\mat…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 65 cited

The interplay of Self-Interacting Dark Matter and baryons in shaping the halo evolution

Giulia Despali, Martin Sparre, Simona Vegetti +3

We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation to test the difference of halo properties in cold dark matter (CDM) and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) scenario with a const…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 22 cited

The seeds of supermassive black holes and the role of local radiation and metal spreading

U. Maio, S. Borgani, B. Ciardi +1

We present cosmological hydrodynamical simulations including atomic and molecular non-equilibrium chemistry, multi-frequency radiative transfer (0.7-100 eV sampled over 150 frequen…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 6 cited

UV background fluctuations traced by metal ions at

L. Graziani, A. Maselli, U. Maio

Here we investigate how LyC-opaque systems present in the intergalactic medium at can distort the spectral shape of a uniform UV background (UVB) through radiative tran…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 126 cited

Time Inference with MUSE in Extragalactic Rings (TIMER): Properties of the Survey and High-Level Data Products

Dimitri A. Gadotti, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Jesús Falcón-Barroso +14

The Time Inference with MUSE in Extragalactic Rings (TIMER) project is a survey with the VLT-MUSE integral-field spectrograph of 24 nearby barred galaxies with prominent central st…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 106 cited

Atomic hydrogen in IllustrisTNG galaxies: the impact of environment parallelled with local 21-cm surveys

Adam R. H. Stevens, Benedikt Diemer, Claudia del P. Lagos +8

We investigate the influence of environment on the cold-gas properties of galaxies at z=0 within the TNG100 cosmological, magnetohydrodynamic simulation, part of the IllustrisTNG s…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 41 cited

The velocity anisotropy of the Milky Way satellite system

Alexander H. Riley, Azadeh Fattahi, Andrew B. Pace +9

We analyse the orbital kinematics of the Milky Way (MW) satellite system utilizing the latest systemic proper motions for 38 satellites based on data from Gaia Data Release 2. Comb…