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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
No Assembly Required: Mergers are Mostly Irrelevant for the Growth of Low-mass Dwarf Galaxies
Alex Fitts, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock +9
We investigate the merger histories of isolated dwarf galaxies based on a suite of 15 high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations, all with masses of $M_{\rm halo} \approx 10^…
Gas Kinematics in FIRE Simulated Galaxies Compared to Spatially Unresolved HI Observations
Kareem El-Badry, Jeremy Bradford, Eliot Quataert +9
The shape of a galaxy's spatially unresolved, globally integrated 21-cm emission line depends on its internal gas kinematics: galaxies with rotation-supported gas disks produce dou…
SIDM on FIRE: Hydrodynamical Self-Interacting Dark Matter simulations of low-mass dwarf galaxies
Victor H. Robles, James S. Bullock, Oliver D. Elbert +7
We compare a suite of four simulated dwarf galaxies formed in 10 haloes of collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM) with galaxies simulated in the same haloes with an…
Dwarf Galaxy Mass Estimators vs. Cosmological Simulations
Alejandro Gonzalez-Samaniego, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +5
We use a suite of high-resolution cosmological dwarf galaxy simulations to test the accuracy of commonly-used mass estimators from Walker et al.(2009) and Wolf et al.(2010), both o…
Gas kinematics, morphology, and angular momentum in the FIRE simulations
Kareem El-Badry, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel +8
We study the z=0 gas kinematics, morphology, and angular momentum content of isolated galaxies in a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project spanning $M_{\st…
FIRE-2 Simulations: Physics versus Numerics in Galaxy Formation
Philip F Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, Dusan Keres +25
The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical source code (FIRE-…
FIRE in the Field: Simulating the Threshold of Galaxy Formation
Alex Fitts, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Oliver D. Elbert +9
We present a suite of 15 cosmological zoom-in simulations of isolated dark matter halos, all with masses of at , in order to unde…
The no-spin zone: rotation vs dispersion support in observed and simulated dwarf galaxies
Coral Wheeler, Andrew B. Pace, James S. Bullock +6
We perform a systematic Bayesian analysis of rotation vs. dispersion support () in dwarf galaxies throughout the Local Volume (LV) over a stellar mass range $…
The Local Group as a time machine: studying the high-redshift Universe with nearby galaxies
Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Daniel R. Weisz, Benjamin D. Johnson +3
We infer the UV luminosities of Local Group galaxies at early cosmic times ( and ) by combining stellar population synthesis modeling with star formation histor…