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20172020
most citedSIDM on FIRE: Hydrodynamical Self-Interacting Dark Matter simulations of low-mass dwarf galaxies

96 citations · 129 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.GA2020

A Relationship Between Stellar Metallicity Gradients and Galaxy Age in Dwarf Galaxies

Francisco J. Mercado, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +7

We explore the origin of stellar metallicity gradients in simulated and observed dwarf galaxies. We use FIRE-2 cosmological baryonic zoom-in simulations of 26 isolated galaxies as…

astro-ph.GA2020

A dark matter profile to model diverse feedback-induced core sizes of CDM haloes

Alexandres Lazar, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +11

We analyze the cold dark matter density profiles of 54 galaxy halos simulated with FIRE-2 galaxy formation physics, each resolved within of the halo virial radius. These ha…

astro-ph.GA2019

Star formation histories of dwarf galaxies in the FIRE simulations: dependence on mass and Local Group environment

Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Andrew Wetzel, Phillip F. Hopkins +13

We study star formation histories (SFHs) of dwarf galaxies (stellar mass ) from FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. We compare dwarf…

astro-ph.GA2019

A Predicted Correlation Between Age Gradient and Star Formation History in FIRE Dwarf Galaxies

Andrew S. Graus, James S. Bullock, Alex Fitts +9

We explore the radial variation of star formation histories in dwarf galaxies simulated with Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) physics. The sample contains 9 low-mass field…

astro-ph.GA2018

Dwarf Galaxies in CDM, WDM, and SIDM: Disentangling Baryons and Dark Matter Physics

Alex Fitts, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Brandon Bozek +9

We present a suite of FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of isolated field dwarf galaxies, all with masses of M at , across a r…

astro-ph.GA2018

Warm FIRE: Simulating Galaxy Formation with Resonant Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter

Brandon Bozek, Alex Fitts, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +8

We study the impact of a warm dark matter (WDM) cosmology on dwarf galaxy formation through a suite of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations of $M_{\rm halo} \approx10^{1…