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most citedThe Cosmic Baryon Cycle and Galaxy Mass Assembly in the FIRE Simulations

425 citations · 1.7k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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43 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The CAMELS-CROCODILE Simulation Suite: A New Cosmology--Astrophysics Playground for Machine Learning

Kentaro Nagamine, Yuri Oku, Atsushi J. Nishizawa +4

We present CAMELS-CROCODILE, a suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations that extends the CAMELS framework with the \gadget{} smoothed particle hydrodynamics code and the Osak…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

X-raying CAMELS: Constraining Baryonic Feedback in the Circum-Galactic Medium with the CAMELS simulations and eRASS X-ray Observations

Erwin T. Lau, Daisuke Nagai, Ákos Bogdán +7

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) around massive galaxies plays a crucial role in regulating star formation and feedback. Using the CAMELS simulation suite, we develop emulators for…

astro-ph.CO2024

Large-scale dual AGN in large-scale cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Clara Puerto-Sánchez, Melanie Habouzit, Marta Volonteri +10

Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) in observations and understanding theoretically which massive black holes (MBHs) compose them and in which galactic and large-scale env…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Learning the Universe: Cosmological and Astrophysical Parameter Inference with Galaxy Luminosity Functions and Colours

Christopher C. Lovell, Tjitske Starkenburg, Matthew Ho +9

We perform the first direct cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference from the combination of galaxy luminosity functions and colours using a simulation based inference ap…

astro-ph.GA2024

Bridging Scales: Coupling the galactic nucleus to the larger cosmic environment

Kung-Yi Su, Priyamvada Natarajan, Hyerin Cho +4

Coupling black hole (BH) feeding and feedback involves interactions across vast spatial and temporal scales that is computationally challenging. Tracking gas inflows and outflows f…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

How DREAMS are made: Emulating Satellite Galaxy and Subhalo Populations with Diffusion Models and Point Clouds

Tri Nguyen, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma +16

The connection between galaxies and their host dark matter (DM) halos is critical to our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation, and DM physics. To maximize the return of upc…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

The impact of feedback on the evolution of gas density profiles from galaxies to clusters: a universal fitting formula from the Simba suite of simulations

Daniele Sorini, Sownak Bose, Romeel Davé +1

The radial distribution of gas within galactic haloes is connected to the star formation rate and the nature of baryon-driven feedback processes. Using six variants of the hydrodyn…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Diverse dark matter profiles in FIRE dwarfs: black holes, cosmic rays and the cusp-core enigma

Sophie Koudmani, Douglas Rennehan, Rachel S. Somerville +5

Dwarf galaxies have historically posed challenges to the cold dark matter (CDM) model and, while many of the so-called 'dwarf galaxy problems' have been mitigated by incorporating…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Host-galaxy stars can dominate the ionizing radiation field of the circumgalactic medium in galaxies at Cosmic Noon

Francisco Holguin, Christopher C. Hayward, Xiangcheng Ma +2

Elucidating the processes that shape the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is crucial for understanding galaxy evolution. Absorption and emission diagnostics can be interpreted using pho…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Introducing the DREAMS Project: DaRk mattEr and Astrophysics with Machine learning and Simulations

Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +27

We introduce the DREAMS project, an innovative approach to understanding the astrophysical implications of alternative dark matter models and their effects on galaxy formation and…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

The baryon cycle in modern cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Ruby J. Wright, Rachel S. Somerville, Claudia del P. Lagos +4

In recent years, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have proven their utility as key interpretative tools in the study of galaxy formation and evolution. In this work, we pres…

astro-ph.GA2023

Dense stellar clump formation driven by strong quasar winds in the FIRE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations

Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Boon Kiat Oh +9

We investigate the formation of dense stellar clumps in a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of a massive, star forming galaxy at under the presen…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Effects of multi-channel AGN feedback in FIRE cosmological simulations of massive galaxies

Lindsey Byrne, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Sarah Wellons +6

Feedback from supermassive black holes is believed to be a critical driver of the observed color bimodality of galaxies above the Milky Way mass scale. AGN feedback has been modele…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

A Hierarchy of Normalizing Flows for Modelling the Galaxy-Halo Relationship

Christopher C. Lovell, Sultan Hassan, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar +8

Using a large sample of galaxies taken from the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS) project, a suite of hydrodynamic simulations varying both cosm…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 30 cited

The impact of AGN-driven winds on physical and observable galaxy sizes

R. K. Cochrane, D. Anglés-Alcázar, J. Mercedes-Feliz +9

Without AGN feedback, simulated massive, star-forming galaxies become too compact relative to observed galaxies at z<2. In this paper, we perform high-resolution re-simulations of…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 44 cited

Robust Field-level Likelihood-free Inference with Galaxies

Natalí S. M. de Santi, Helen Shao, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +12

We train graph neural networks to perform field-level likelihood-free inference using galaxy catalogs from state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project. Our mode…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 32 cited

Inferring the impact of feedback on the matter distribution using the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect: Insights from CAMELS simulations and ACT+DES data

Shivam Pandey, Kai Lehman, Eric J. Baxter +6

Feedback from active galactic nuclei and stellar processes changes the matter distribution on small scales, leading to significant systematic uncertainty in weak lensing constraint…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

158 emission as an indicator of galaxy star formation rate

Lichen Liang, Robert Feldmann, Norman Murray +12

Observations of local star-forming galaxies (SFGs) show a tight correlation between their singly ionized carbon line luminosity () and star formation rate (SFR),…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 40 cited

Local positive feedback in the overall negative: the impact of quasar winds on star formation in the FIRE cosmological simulations

Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Christopher C. Hayward +10

Negative feedback from accreting supermassive black holes is regarded as a key ingredient in suppressing star formation and quenching massive galaxies. However, several models and…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

Efficient long-range AGN feedback affects the low redshift Lyman- forest

Megan Taylor Tillman, Blakesley Burkhart, Stephanie Tonnesen +5

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback models are generally calibrated to reproduce galaxy observables such as the stellar mass function and the bimodality in galaxy colors. We use…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 28 cited

The SZ flux-mass (-) relation at low halo masses: improvements with symbolic regression and strong constraints on baryonic feedback

Digvijay Wadekar, Leander Thiele, J. Colin Hill +8

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and supernovae can affect measurements of integrated SZ flux of halos () from CMB surveys, and cause its relation with the…

astro-ph.GA2022

Constraining cosmology with machine learning and galaxy clustering: the CAMELS-SAM suite

Lucia A. Perez, Shy Genel, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +5

As the next generation of large galaxy surveys come online, it is becoming increasingly important to develop and understand the machine learning tools that analyze big astronomical…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 33 cited

Breaking baryon-cosmology degeneracy with the electron density power spectrum

Andrina Nicola, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, David N. Spergel +8

Uncertain feedback processes in galaxies affect the distribution of matter, currently limiting the power of weak lensing surveys. If we can identify cosmological statistics that ar…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 43 cited

Cosmology with one galaxy?

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Jupiter Ding, Shy Genel +10

Galaxies can be characterized by many internal properties such as stellar mass, gas metallicity, and star-formation rate. We quantify the amount of cosmological and astrophysical i…