Why stellar feedback promotes disc formation in simulated galaxies

Abstract

We study how feedback influences baryon infall onto galaxies using cosmological, zoom-in simulations of haloes with present mass $M_{vir}=6.9\times 10^{11}{M}_{\odot }$ to $1.7\times 10^{12}{M}_{\odot }$. Starting at z=4 from identical initial conditions, implementations of weak and strong stellar feedback produce bulge- and disc-dominated galaxies, respectively. Strong feedback favours disc formation: (1) because conversion of gas into stars is suppressed at early times, as required by abundance matching arguments, resulting in flat star formation histories and higher gas fractions; (2) because 50% of the stars form in situ from recycled disc gas with angular momentum only weakly related to that of the z=0 dark halo; (3) because late-time gas accretion is typically an order of magnitude stronger and has higher specific angular momentum, with recycled gas dominating over primordial infall; (4) because 25-30% of the total accreted gas is ejected entirely before z~1, removing primarily low angular momentum material which enriches the nearby inter-galactic medium. Most recycled gas roughly conserves its angular momentum, but material ejected for long times and to large radii can gain significant angular momentum before re-accretion. These processes lower galaxy formation efficiency in addition to promoting disc formation.

23 pages, 29 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

References in corpus (74)

• The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2
• Cosmological SPH simulations: A hybrid multi-phase model for star formation
• The Formation of Galactic Disks
• The Aquarius Project: the subhalos of galactic halos
• Radiative Transfer in a Clumpy Universe: II. The Utraviolet Extragalactic Background
• Galactic star formation and accretion histories from matching galaxies to dark matter haloes
• Constraints on the relationship between stellar mass and halo mass at low and high redshift
• At the heart of the matter: the origin of bulgeless dwarf galaxies and Dark Matter cores
• The Structure and Kinematics of the Circum-Galactic Medium from Far-UV Spectra of z~2-3 Galaxies
• Minor mergers and the size evolution of elliptical galaxies
• A model for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation physics
• Resolving Cosmic Structure Formation with the Millennium-II Simulation
• The Two Phases of Galaxy Formation
• How do galaxies populate Dark Matter halos?
• From rings to bulges: evidence for rapid secular galaxy evolution at z~2 from integral field spectroscopy in the SINS survey
• Simulations of Galaxy Formation in a Lambda CDM Universe II: The Fine Structure of Simulated Galactic Disks
• Massive molecular outflows and negative feedback in ULIRGs observed by Herschel-PACS
• How Do Disks Survive Mergers?
• Simulating galactic outflows with thermal supernova feedback
• Mass, Metal, and Energy Feedback in Cosmological Simulations
• A Merger-Driven Scenario for Cosmological Disk Galaxy Formation
• Forming Realistic Late-Type Spirals in a LCDM Universe: The Eris Simulation
• COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies: I. Relations between H2, HI, stellar content and structural properties
• Feedback and Recycled Wind Accretion: Assembling the z=0 Galaxy Mass Function
• The Complete Star Formation History of the Universe
• The Aquila comparison Project: The Effects of Feedback and Numerical Methods on Simulations of Galaxy Formation
• Formation of a spiral galaxy in a major merger
• Making Galaxies in a Cosmological Context: The Need for Early Stellar Feedback
• Properties of Galactic Outflows: Measurements of the Feedback from Star Formation
• Dark Halo and Disk Galaxy Scaling Laws in Hierarchical Universes
• The cosmological size and velocity dispersion evolution of massive early-type galaxies
• Moving mesh cosmology: tracing cosmological gas accretion
• The formation of disc galaxies in high resolution moving-mesh cosmological simulations
• The Assembly of Galaxies in a Hierarchically Clustering Universe
• Molecular Hydrogen and Global Star Formation Relations in Galaxies
• The Structure of the Interstellar Medium of Star Forming Galaxies
• The Formation and Survival of Discs in a Lambda-CDM Universe
• The formation of disc galaxies in a LCDM universe
• A Revised Model for the Formation of Disk Galaxies: Low Spin and Dark-Halo Expansion
• Towards a more realistic population of bright spiral galaxies in cosmological simulations
• The Formation of a Realistic Disk Galaxy in Lambda Dominated Cosmologies
• Effects of Supernova Feedback on the Formation of Galaxy Disks
• Hierarchical formation of bulgeless galaxies: Why outflows have low angular momentum
• Did most present-day spirals form during the last 8 Gyrs? A formation history with violent episodes revealed by panchromatic observations
• Feedback and metal enrichment in cosmological SPH simulations - II. A multiphase model with supernova energy feedback
• Forming a Large Disc Galaxy from a z<1 Major Merger
• Constraints on star-formation driven galaxy winds from the mass-metallicity relation at z=0
• The effects of feedback on the morphology of galaxy discs
• Feedback and metal enrichment in cosmological SPH simulations I. A model for chemical enrichment
• The Meaning and Consequences of Star Formation Criteria in Galaxy Models with Resolved Stellar Feedback
• Hierarchical formation of bulgeless galaxies II: Redistribution of angular momentum via galactic fountains
• Implementing Molecular Hydrogen in Hydrodynamic Simulations of Galaxy Formation
• Feedback and the Structure of Simulated Galaxies at redshift z=2
• MaGICC Disks: Matching Observed Galaxy Relationships Over a Wide Stellar Mass Range
• Forming Early-Type Galaxies in LambdaCDM Simulations -I. Assembly histories
• Cosmological Galaxy Formation Simulations Using SPH
• The Impact of Feedback on Disk Galaxy Scaling Relations
• Formation of disk galaxies: feedback and the angular momentum problem
• Observations of Chemically Enriched QSO Absorbers near z ~ 2.3 Galaxies: Galaxy-Formation Feedback Signatures in the IGM
• Cosmic rays can drive strong outflows from gas-rich high-redshift disk galaxies
• Towards a Resolution of the Galactic Spin Crisis: Mergers, Feedback, and Spin Segregation
• An observational and theoretical view of the radial distribution of HI gas in galaxies
• Moving Mesh Cosmology: Properties of Gas Disks
• Star Formation, Supernovae Feedback and the Angular Momentum Problem in Numerical CDM Cosmogony: Half Way There?
• Dark Matter Problem in Disk Galaxies
• Smoothed particle hydrodynamics for galaxy formation simulations: improved treatments of multiphase gas, of star formation and of supernovae feedback
• The Angular Momentum Problem in Cosmological Simulations of Disk Galaxy Formation
• The effect of metal enrichment and galactic winds on galaxy formation in cosmological zoom simulations
• The effects of a hot gaseous halo in galaxy major mergers
• How galaxies lose their angular momentum
• Observational signatures of feedback in QSO absorption spectra
• Cosmological Zoom Simulations of z = 2 Galaxies: The Impact of Galactic Outflows
• Thermal instabilities in cooling galactic coronae: fuelling star formation in galactic discs
• The diverse formation histories of simulated disc galaxies

Cited by in corpus (114)

• Physical Models of Galaxy Formation in a Cosmological Framework
• Theoretical Challenges in Galaxy Formation
• The Cosmic Baryon Cycle and Galaxy Mass Assembly in the FIRE Simulations
• The SILCC (SImulating the LifeCycle of molecular Clouds) project: I. Chemical evolution of the supernova-driven ISM
• Strongly baryon-dominated disk galaxies at the peak of galaxy formation ten billion years ago
• Connecting Angular Momentum and Galactic Dynamics: The complex Interplay between Spin, Mass, and Morphology
• Where stars form: inside-out growth and coherent star formation from HST Halpha maps of 2676 galaxies across the main sequence at z~1
• Star-Forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
• Evidence for Wide-Spread AGN Driven Outflows in the Most Massive z~1-2 Star Forming Galaxies
• Galactic Angular Momentum in the Illustris Simulation: Feedback and the Hubble Sequence
• On the interplay between star formation and feedback in galaxy formation simulations
• The KMOS^3D Survey: Demographics and Properties of Galactic Outflows at z = 0.6 - 2.7
• Launching cosmic-ray-driven outflows from the magnetized interstellar medium
• The role of mergers and halo spin in shaping galaxy morphology
• The Origins of the Circumgalactic Medium in the FIRE Simulations
• In-N-Out: the gas cycle from dwarfs to spiral galaxies
• Gas kinematics, morphology, and angular momentum in the FIRE simulations
• Building Late-Type Spiral Galaxies by In-Situ and Ex-Situ Star Formation
• VINTERGATAN I: The origins of chemically, kinematically and structurally distinct discs in a simulated Milky Way-mass galaxy
• ProSpect: Generating Spectral Energy Distributions with Complex Star Formation and Metallicity Histories
• The impact of feedback on cosmological gas accretion
• The angular momentum distribution and baryon content of star forming galaxies at z~1-3
• Simulating the interstellar medium and stellar feedback on a moving mesh: Implementation and isolated galaxies
• Impact of Cosmic Ray Transport on Galactic Winds
• The Relationship between Galaxy and Dark Matter Halo Size from z~3 to the present
• The impact of stellar feedback on the structure, size and morphology of galaxies in Milky Way size dark matter haloes
• The Co-Evolution of Total Density Profiles and Central Dark Matter Fractions in Simulated Early-Type Galaxies
• Rotation Curves in z~1-2 Star-Forming Disks: Evidence for Cored Dark Matter Distributions
• The Diversity and Variability of Star Formation Histories in Models of Galaxy Evolution
• The modelling of feedback in star formation simulations
• Gas accretion and galactic fountain flows in the Auriga cosmological simulations: angular momentum and metal re-distribution
• The evolution of the Tully-Fisher relation between z~2.3 and z~0.9 with KMOS^3D
• The specific angular momentum of disc galaxies and its connection with galaxy morphology, bar structure and disc gravitational instability
• The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): rotational velocities and angular momentum of z~0.9 galaxies
• Hot-mode accretion and the physics of thin-disk galaxy formation
• Environmental regulation of cloud and star formation in galactic bars
• Log-normal star formation histories in simulated and observed galaxies
• The Molecular and Ionized Gas Phases of an AGN-driven Outflow in a Typical Massive Galaxy at z=2
• Bulge Formation via Mergers in Cosmological Simulations
• The Fates of the Circumgalactic Medium in the FIRE Simulations
• Deviations from hydrostatic equilibrium in the circumgalactic medium: spinning hot haloes and accelerating flows
• Supernova-blast waves in wind-blown bubbles, turbulent, and power-law ambient media
• Supernova Feedback and the Hot Gas Filling Fraction of the Interstellar Medium
• Bimodality of [α/Fe]-[Fe/H] distributions is a natural outcome of dissipative collapse and disc growth in Milky Way-type galaxies
• Tracing Outflowing Metals in Simulations of Dwarf and Spiral Galaxies
• The Impact of Galactic Winds on the Angular Momentum of Disk Galaxies in the Illustris Simulation
• SDSS-IV MaNGA: The kinematic-morphology of galaxies on the mass vs star-formation relation in different environments
• Galactic inflow and wind recycling rates in the EAGLE simulations
• The COS CGM Compendium. II: Metallicities of the Partial and Lyman Limit Systems at z<1
• Origin and evolution of ultra-diffuse galaxies in different environments
• Galactic angular momentum in the IllustrisTNG simulation -- I. Connection to morphology, halo spin, and black hole mass
• On the origin of star-gas counterrotation in low-mass galaxies
• The HIX galaxy survey II: HI kinematics of HI eXtreme galaxies
• Momentum-driven Winds from Radiatively Efficient Black Hole Accretion and Their Impact on Galaxies
• Stellar orbits in cosmological galaxy simulations: the connection to formation history and line-of-sight kinematics
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Gas Fuelling of Spiral Galaxies in the Local Universe I. - The Effect of the Group Environment on Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies
• Galactic angular momentum in cosmological zoom-in simulations. I. Disk and bulge components and the galaxy--halo connection
• The effect of the virial state of molecular clouds on the influence of feedback from massive stars
• The impact of feedback and the hot halo on the rates of gas accretion onto galaxies
• Structural and Dynamical Properties of Galaxies in a Hierarchical Universe: Sizes and Specific Angular Momenta
• Modeling for Stellar Feedback in Galaxy Formation Simulations
• The Angular Momentum of the Circumgalactic Medium in the TNG100 Simulation
• Lyman-αabsorption beyond the disk of simulated spiral galaxies
• How to bend galaxy disc profiles: the role of halo spin
• On the effect of galactic outflows in cosmological simulations of disc galaxies
• The formation of low surface brightness galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation
• Rapid Filamentary Accretion as the Origin of Extended Thin Discs
• SDSS-IV MaNGA: drivers of stellar metallicity in nearby galaxies
• How gas flows shape the stellar-halo mass relation in the EAGLE simulation
• GA-NIFS: Multi-phase analysis of a star-forming galaxy at $z\sim 5.5$
• NIHAO III: The constant disc gas mass conspiracy
• CLEAR: The Evolution of Spatially Resolved Star Formation in Galaxies between $0.5\lesssim z\lesssim 1.7$ using H$\alpha$ Emission Line Maps
• Examining the Decline in the C IV Content of the Universe over 4.3 < z < 6.3 using the E-XQR-30 Sample
• Better Together: The Complex Interplay Between Radiative Cooling and Magnetic Draping
• The dawn of disks: unveiling the turbulent ionised gas kinematics of the galaxy population at $z\sim 4-6$ with JWST/NIRCam grism spectroscopy
• Baryonic mass budgets for haloes in the EAGLE simulation, including ejected and prevented gas
• The global and radial stellar mass assembly of Milky Way-sized galaxies
• The SATIN project I: Turbulent multi-phase ISM in Milky Way simulations with SNe feedback from stellar clusters
• New Analytic Solutions for Galaxy Evolution II: Wind Recycling, Galactic Fountains and Late-Type Galaxies
• The Effect of Galactic Feedback on Gas Accretion and Wind Recycling
• The Evolution of Sizes and Specific Angular Momenta in Hierarchical Models of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
• Stellar angular momentum can be controlled from cosmological initial conditions
• Smoothing Rotation Curves and Mass Profiles
• Simulating nearby disc galaxies on the main star formation sequence I. Bar formation and the building of the central gas reservoir
• Barlenses in the CALIFA survey: combining the photometric and stellar population analysis
• Connecting Galactic Outflows and Star Formation: Inferences from H-alpha Maps and Absorption Line Spectroscopy at 1 < z < 1.5
• Fast Molecular Cloud Destruction Requires Fast Cloud Formation
• The ALMA-CRISTAL survey: Resolved kinematic studies of main sequence star-forming galaxies at 4<z<6
• Spatially resolved emission lines in galaxies at $4\le z<10$ from the JADES survey: evidence for enhanced central star formation
• The angular momentum structure of cosmic ray driven galactic outflows triggered by stream accretion
• The Effect of Cosmic Rays on the Observational Properties of the CGM
• Gas Accretion and Angular Momentum
• Translators of galaxy morphology indicators between observation and simulation
• Zoom-in cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of a star-forming barred, spiral galaxy at redshift z=2
• Dynamic equilibrium sets atomic content of galaxies across cosmic time
• The relationship between galaxy and halo sizes in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG simulations
• The Formation of a Milky Way-sized Disk Galaxy 1. A Comparison of Numerical Methods
• Non-explosive pre-supernova feedback in the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation
• Understanding the Baryon Cycle: Fueling Star Formation via Inflows in Milky Way-like Galaxies
• Anatomy of galactic star formation history: Roles of different modes of gas accretion, feedback, and recycling
• The assembly of the most rotationally supported disc galaxies in the TNG100 simulations
• Dissecting Cosmological Filaments at High Redshifts: Emergence of Spaghetti-type Flow Inside DM Haloes
• Redshift and stellar mass dependence of intrinsic shapes of disc-dominated galaxies from COSMOS observations below $z=1.0$
• A Shallow Slope for the Stellar Mass--Angular Momentum Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies at $1.5<z<2.5$
• Time-average properties of $z\sim 0.6$ major mergers: mergers significantly scatter high-z scaling relations
• The GECKOS survey: Jeans anisotropic models of edge-on discs uncover the impact of dust and kinematic structures
• You Are What You Eat: The Circumgalactic Medium Around BreakBRD Galaxies has Low Mass and Angular Momentum
• The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: Gas-phase abundance gradients of main sequence star-forming galaxies and their kinematics at $4<z<6$
• Emergence of red, star-forming galaxies (red misfits) in a ΛCDM universe
• Past, present and Future of the Scaling Relations of Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei
• Two-phase formation of galaxies: the coevolution between galaxies and dark matter halos
• Unveiling an old disk around a massive young leaking blueberry in SDSS-IV MaNGA
• GalSBI-SPS: a stellar population synthesis-based galaxy population model for cosmology and galaxy evolution applications
• The Thermodynamic and Kinematic Evolution of Circumgalactic Gas around $z=1$ in the IllustrisTNG model