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astro-ph.GA2020★ 16 cited

Inferring the Morphology of Stellar Distribution in TNG50: Twisted and Twisted-Stretched shapes

Razieh Emami, Lars Hernquist, Charles Alcock +9

We investigate the morphology of the stellar distribution in a sample of Milky Way (MW) like galaxies in the TNG50 simulation. Using a local in shell iterative method (LSIM) as the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

A Holistic Review of a Galactic Interaction

Douglas Grion Filho, Kathryn V. Johnston, Eloisa Poggio +3

Our situation as occupants of the Milky Way (MW) Galaxy, bombarded by the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, provides an intimate view of physical processes that can lead to the dynamical h…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 29 cited

Orbital Torus Imaging: Using Element Abundances to Map Orbits and Mass in the Milky Way

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Kathryn V. Johnston +9

Many approaches to galaxy dynamics assume that the gravitational potential is simple and the distribution function is time-invariant. Under these assumptions there are traditional…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 12 cited

Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback in an Elliptical Galaxy with the Most Updated AGN Physics: Parameter Explorations

Zhiyuan Yao, Feng Yuan, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

In a previous work, we have proposed a sub-grid model of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback by taking into account the state-of-the-art AGN physics, and used that model to stud…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 13 cited

Mapping the tilt of the Milky Way bulge velocity ellipsoids with ARGOS and DR2

Iulia T. Simion, Juntai Shen, Sergey E. Koposov +4

Until the recent advent of Data Release 2 (DR2) and deep multi-object spectroscopy, it has been difficult to obtain 6-D phase space information for large numbers of stars be…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

Separatrix Divergence of Stellar Streams in Galactic Potentials

Tomer D. Yavetz, Kathryn V. Johnston, Sarah Pearson +2

Flattened axisymmetric galactic potentials are known to host minor orbit families surrounding orbits with commensurable frequencies. The behavior of orbits that belong to these orb…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 28 cited

Measuring the vertical response of the Galactic disc to an infalling satellite

Eloisa Poggio, Chervin F. P. Laporte, Kathryn V. Johnston +3

Using N-body simulations of the Milky Way interacting with a satellite similar to the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, we quantitatively analyse the vertical response of the Galactic disc…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 19 cited

Discovery of Magellanic Stellar Debris in the H3 Survey

Dennis Zaritsky, Charlie Conroy, Rohan P. Naidu +9

We report the discovery of 15 stars in the H3 survey that lie, in projection, near the tip of the trailing gaseous Magellanic Stream (MS). The stars have Galactocentric velocities…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

MOSEL and IllustrisTNG: Massive Extended Galaxies at z=2 Quench Later Than Normal-size Galaxies

Anshu Gupta, Kim-Vy Tran, Annalisa Pillepich +4

Using the TNG100 (100 Mpc)^3 simulation of the IllustrisTNG project, we demonstrate a strong connection between the onset of star formation quenching and the stellar size of galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 626 cited

The GALAH+ Survey: Third Data Release

Sven Buder, Sanjib Sharma, Janez Kos +44

The ensemble of chemical element abundance measurements for stars, along with precision distances and orbit properties, provides high-dimensional data to study the evolution of the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 17 cited

Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium of the Lowest-Mass Galaxies: A Case Study of IC 1613

Yong Zheng, Andrew Emerick, Mary E. Putman +3

Using 10 sightlines observed with the Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, we study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and outflows of IC1613, which is a low-mass ($M_*…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 62 cited

A Framework for Multiphase Galactic Wind Launching using TIGRESS

Chang-Goo Kim, Eve C. Ostriker, Drummond B. Fielding +6

Galactic outflows have density, temperature, and velocity variations at least as large as that of the multiphase, turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) from which they originate. We…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 77 cited

The critical dark matter halo mass for Population III star formation: dependence on Lyman-Werner radiation, baryon-dark matter streaming velocity, and redshift

Mihir Kulkarni, Eli Visbal, Greg L. Bryan

A critical dark matter halo mass () for Population III (Pop III) stars can be defined as the typical minimum halo mass that hosts sufficient cold dense gas required f…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 12 cited

Radiative feedback for supermassive star formation in a massive cloud with H2 molecules in an atomic-cooling halo

Yuya Sakurai, Zoltán Haiman, Kohei Inayoshi

Recent three-dimensional cosmological simulations of protogalaxy formation have suggested that supermassive stars (SMSs) can form in gas clouds in which H cooling is suppressed…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 31 cited

IQ Collaboratory II: The Quiescent Fraction of Isolated, Low Mass Galaxies Across Simulations and Observations

Claire M Dickey, Tjitske K Starkenburg, Marla Geha +10

We compare three major large-scale hydrodynamical galaxy simulations (EAGLE, Illustris-TNG, and SIMBA) by forward modeling simulated galaxies into observational space and computing…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 17 cited

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) II: Discovery of an H-Bearing DLA in the Vicinity of an Early-Type Galaxy at z = 0.576

Erin Boettcher, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Fakhri S. Zahedy +18

We report the serendipitous detection of an H-bearing damped Lyman- absorber at z = 0.576 in the spectrum of the QSO J0111-0316 in the Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey. Sp…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

The QuaStar Survey: Detecting Hidden Low-Velocity Gas in the Milky Way's Circumgalactic Medium

Hannah V. Bish, Jessica K. Werk, Joshua Peek +2

From our position embedded within the Milky Way's interstellar medium (ISM), we have limited ability to detect gas at low relative velocities in the extended Galactic halo because…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 125 cited

Quantifying the impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the structure of the Milky Way's dark matter halo using Basis Function Expansions

Nicolas Garavito-Camargo, Gurtina Besla, Chervin F. P. Laporte +5

Indications of disequilibrium throughout the Milky Way (MW) highlight the need for compact,flexible, non-parametric descriptions of phase--space distributions of galaxies. We prese…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 48 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XII. Broad-Line Region Modeling of NGC 5548

P. R. Williams, A. Pancoast, T. Treu +155

We present geometric and dynamical modeling of the broad line region for the multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign focused on NGC 5548 in 2014. The dataset includes photo…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 20 cited

The Impact of Outflows driven by Active Galactic Nuclei on Metals in and around Galaxies

Ena Choi, Ryan Brennan, Rachel S. Somerville +3

Metals in the hot gaseous halos of galaxies encode the history of star formation as well as the feedback processes that eject metals from the galaxies. X-ray observations suggest t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 6 cited

The HI Structure of the Local Volume Dwarf Galaxy Pisces A

Luca Beale, Jennifer Donovan Meyer, Erik J. Tollerud +2

Dedicated HI surveys have recently led to a growing category of low-mass galaxies found in the Local Volume. We present synthesis imaging of one such galaxy, Pisces A, a low-mass d…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Multimessenger pulsar timing array constraints on supermassive black hole binaries traced by periodic light curves

Chengcheng Xin, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Jeffrey S. Hazboun

Supermassive black hole binary systems (SMBHBs) emitting gravitational waves may be traced by periodic light curves. We assembled a catalog of 149 such periodic light curves, and u…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 99 cited

Efficient early stellar feedback can suppress galactic outflows by reducing supernova clustering

Matthew C. Smith, Greg L. Bryan, Rachel S. Somerville +4

We present a novel set of stellar feedback models, implemented in the moving-mesh code Arepo, designed for galaxy formation simulations with near-parsec (or better) resolution. The…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 30 cited

DM halo morphological types of MW-like galaxies in the TNG50 simulation: Simple, Twisted, or Stretched

Razieh Emami, Shy Genel, Lars Hernquist +8

We present a comprehensive analysis of the shape of dark matter (DM) halos in a sample of 25 Milky Way-like galaxies in TNG50 simulation. Using an Enclosed Volume Iterative Method…