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astro-ph.GA2019★ 3 cited

Ionized gas kinematics of massive elliptical galaxies in CALIFA and in cosmological zoom-in simulations

Jan Florian, Bodo Ziegler, Michaela Hirschmann +5

(Abridged) We present an investigation of kinematical imprints of AGN feedback on the Warm Ionized gas Medium (WIM) of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs). To this end, we take a tw…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 34 cited

Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: II. Evolutionary trend of the total density profile

Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dandan Xu +8

We study the evolutionary trend of the total density profile of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in IllustrisTNG. To this end, we trace ETGs from to and measure the power-law…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 109 cited

The REQUIEM Survey I: A Search for Extended Ly-Alpha Nebular Emission Around 31 z>5.7 Quasars

Emanuele Paolo Farina, Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia, Tiago Costa +19

The discovery of quasars few hundred megayears after the Big Bang represents a major challenge to our understanding of black holes and galaxy formation and evolution. Their luminos…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 46 cited

Survey of Gravitationally-lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI). IV. Lensed quasar search in the HSC survey

James H. H. Chan, Sherry H. Suyu, Alessandro Sonnenfeld +9

Strong gravitationally lensed quasars provide powerful means to study galaxy evolution and cosmology. We use Chitah to hunt for new lens systems in the Hyper SuprimeCam Subaru S…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 37 cited

Structural and photometric properties of barred galaxies from the Auriga cosmological simulations

Guillermo Blázquez-Calero, Estrella Florido, Isabel Pérez +6

In this work we analyse the structural and photometric properties of 21 barred simulated galaxies from the Auriga Project. These consist of Milky Way-mass magneto-hydrodynamical si…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 20 cited

Braginskii viscosity on an unstructured, moving mesh accelerated with super-time-stepping

Thomas Berlok, Ruediger Pakmor, Christoph Pfrommer

We present a method for efficiently modelling Braginskii viscosity on an unstructured, moving mesh. Braginskii viscosity, i.e., anisotropic transport of momentum with respect to th…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 73 cited

X-ray Signatures of Black Hole Feedback: Hot Galactic Atmospheres in IllustrisTNG and X-ray Observations

Nhut Truong, Annalisa Pillepich, Norbert Werner +6

Hot gaseous atmospheres that permeate galaxies and extend far beyond their stellar distribution, where they are commonly referred to as the circumgalactic medium (CGM), imprint imp…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 79 cited

Magnetising the circumgalactic medium of disk galaxies

Ruediger Pakmor, Freeke van de Voort, Rebekka Bieri +7

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is one of the frontiers of galaxy formation and intimately connected to the galaxy via accretion of gas on to the galaxy and gaseous outflows from t…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 157 cited

Chemodynamics of barred galaxies in cosmological simulations: On the Milky Way's quiescent merger history and in-situ bulge

F. Fragkoudi, R. J. J. Grand, R. Pakmor +9

We explore the chemodynamical properties of a sample of barred galaxies in the Auriga magneto-hydrodynamical cosmological zoom-in simulations, which form boxy/peanut (b/p) bulges,…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 112 cited

The GRIFFIN project -- Formation of star clusters with individual massive stars in a simulated dwarf galaxy starburst

Natalia Lahén, Thorsten Naab, Peter H. Johansson +5

We describe a population of young star clusters (SCs) formed in a hydrodynamical simulation of a gas-rich dwarf galaxy merger resolved with individual massive stars at sub-parsec s…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 343 cited

The Milky Way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2

Marius Cautun, Alejandro Benitez-Llambay, Alis J. Deason +7

We determine the Milky Way (MW) mass profile inferred from fitting physically motivated models to the Gaia DR2 Galactic rotation curve and other data. Using various hydrodynamical…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 23 cited

Systematic errors in strong gravitational lensing reconstructions, a numerical simulation perspective

W. Enzi, S. Vegetti, G. Despali +2

We present the analysis of a sample of twenty-four SLACS-like galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lens systems with a background source and deflectors from the Illustris-1 simulatio…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 107 cited

The effects of cosmic rays on the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies in a cosmological context

Tobias Buck, Christoph Pfrommer, Rüdiger Pakmor +2

We investigate the impact of cosmic rays (CR) and different modes of CR transport on the properties of Milky Way-mass galaxies in cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations in…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 55 cited

Simulating the interstellar medium of galaxies with radiative transfer, non-equilibrium thermochemistry, and dust

Rahul Kannan, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger +4

We present a novel framework to self-consistently model the effects of radiation fields, dust physics and molecular chemistry (H) in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies.…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 57 cited

Empirical constraints on the formation of early-type galaxies

Benjamin P. Moster, Thorsten Naab, Simon D. M. White

We present constraints on the formation and evolution of early-type galaxies (ETGs) with the empirical model EMERGE. The parameters of this model are adjusted so that it reproduces…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 111 cited

Gas accretion and galactic fountain flows in the Auriga cosmological simulations: angular momentum and metal re-distribution

Robert J. J. Grand, Freeke van de Voort, Jolanta Zjupa +7

Using a set of 15 high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic cosmological simulations of Milky Way formation, we investigate the origin of the baryonic material found in stars at redshift…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 55 cited

Dark matter halo shapes in the Auriga simulations

Jesus Prada, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Robert J. J. Grand +2

We present shape measurements of Milky Way-sized dark matter halos at redshift in a suite of 30 zoom simulations from the Auriga project. We compare the results in full magne…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 31 cited

The dark matter component of the Gaia radially anisotropic substructure

Nassim Bozorgnia, Azadeh Fattahi, Carlos S. Frenk +5

We study the properties of the dark matter component of the radially anisotropic stellar population recently identified in the Gaia data, using magneto-hydrodynamical simulations o…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 14 cited

Lensed quasar search via time variability with the HSC transient survey

Dani C. -Y. Chao, James H. -H. Chan, Sherry H. Suyu +5

Gravitationally lensed quasars are useful for studying astrophysics and cosmology, and enlarging the sample size of lensed quasars is important for multiple studies. In this work,…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 41 cited

Correlations Between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations

Yuan Li, Melanie Habouzit, Shy Genel +11

We study black hole - host galaxy correlations, and the relation between the over-massiveness (the distance from the average relation) of super-massive black holes (SMBH…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 115 cited

Evolution of the Cool Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) of Massive Halos -- A Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) Survey of Ly Emission around QSOs at

Zheng Cai, Sebastiano Cantalupo, J. Xavier Prochaska +6

Motivated by the recent discovery of the near-ubiquity of Ly emission around QSOs, we performed a systematic study of QSO circumgalactic Ly emission at $z\appro…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 40 cited

ALMACAL VI: Molecular gas mass density across cosmic time via a blind search for intervening molecular absorbers

Anne Klitsch, Celine Peroux, Martin A. Zwaan +12

We are just starting to understand the physical processes driving the dramatic change in cosmic star-formation rate between and the present day. A quantity directly linke…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 43 cited

Identifying kinematic structures in simulated galaxies using unsupervised machine learning

Min Du, Luis C. Ho, Dongyao Zhao +4

Galaxies host a wide array of internal stellar components, which need to be decomposed accurately in order to understand their formation and evolution. While significant progress h…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 40 cited

Extreme ionised outflows are more common when the radio emission is compact in AGN host galaxies

S. J. Molyneux, C. M. Harrison, M. E. Jarvis

Using a sample of 2922 z<0.2, spectroscopically-identified Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) we explore the relationship between radio size and the prevalence of extreme ionised outflow…