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The cosmic globular cluster formation history in the E-MOSAICS simulations
Philipp S. Joschko, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez +4
We present a comprehensive analysis of globular cluster (GC) formation and evolution across the Mpc volume of the E-MOSAICS galaxy formation simulations. Defining GCs as…
Spherinator and HiPSter: Representation Learning for Unbiased Knowledge Discovery from Simulations
Kai L. Polsterer, Bernd Doser, Andreas Fehlner +1
Simulations are the best approximation to experimental laboratories in astrophysics and cosmology. However, the complexity, richness, and large size of their outputs severely limit…
HI discs of L galaxies as probes of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution
Jindra Gensior, Robert Feldmann, Marta Reina-Campos +7
Understanding what shapes the cold gas component of galaxies, which both provides the fuel for star formation and is strongly affected by the subsequent stellar feedback, is a cruc…
On the origin of globular clusters in a hierarchical Universe
Gabriella De Lucia, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez +2
We present an end-to-end description of the formation process of globular clusters (GCs) which combines a treatment for their formation and dynamical evolution within galaxy haloes…
In-situ or accreted? Using deep learning to infer the origin of extragalactic globular clusters from observables
Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Joel Pfeffer +4
Globular clusters (GCs) are powerful tracers of the galaxy assembly process, and have already been used to obtain a detailed picture of the progenitors of the Milky Way. Using the…
Globular cluster metallicity distributions in the E-MOSAICS simulations
Joel Pfeffer, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Nate Bastian +2
The metallicity distributions of globular cluster (GC) systems in galaxies are a critical test of any GC formation scenario. In this work, we investigate the predicted GC metallici…
Monochromatic globular clusters as a critical test of formation models for the dark matter deficient galaxies NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4
Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen, Aaron J. Romanowsky +8
It was recently proposed that the dark matter-deficient ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 in the NGC1052 group could be the products of a "bullet dwarf" collision between two gas-…
A trail of dark matter-free galaxies from a bullet dwarf collision
Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen, Michael A. Keim +8
The ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 in the NGC1052 group share several unusual properties: they both have large sizes, rich populations of overluminous and large globular cluste…
Constraining the shape of dark matter haloes with globular clusters
Marta Reina-Campos, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, Joel L. Pfeffer +4
We explore how diffuse stellar light and globular clusters (GCs) can be used to trace the matter distribution of their host halo using an observational methodology. For this, we us…
Examining quasar absorption-line analysis methods: the tension between simulations and observational assumptions key to modelling clouds
Rachel Marra, Christopher W. Churchill, Glenn G. Kacprzak +3
A key assumption in quasar absorption line studies of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is that each absorption component maps to a spatially isolated "cloud" structure that has sing…
Introducing EMP-Pathfinder: modelling the simultaneous formation and evolution of stellar clusters in their host galaxies
Marta Reina-Campos, Benjamin W. Keller, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +5
The formation and evolution of stellar clusters is intimately linked to that of their host galaxies. To study this connection, we present the EMP-Pathfinder suite of cosmological z…
The physics governing the upper truncation mass of the globular cluster mass function
Meghan E. Hughes, Joel L. Pfeffer, Nate Bastian +5
The mass function of globular cluster (GC) populations is a fundamental observable that encodes the physical conditions under which these massive stellar clusters formed and evolve…
NGC5846-UDG1: A galaxy formed mostly by star formation in massive, extremely dense clumps of gas
Shany Danieli, Pieter van Dokkum, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez +10
It has been shown that ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have higher specific frequencies of globular clusters on average than other dwarf galaxies with similar luminosities. The UDG N…
Using cosmological simulations and synthetic absorption spectra to assess the accuracy of observationally derived CGM metallicities
Rachel Marra, Christopher W. Churchill, Caitlin Doughty +6
We used adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic cosmological simulations of a Milky Way-type galaxy and a Dwarf galaxy and generated synthetic quasar absorption-line spec…
Globular clusters as tracers of the dark matter halo: insights from the E-MOSAICS simulations
Marta Reina-Campos, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, Alis J. Deason +5
Globular clusters (GCs) are bright objects that span a wide range of galactocentric distances, and are thus probes of the structure of dark matter (DM) haloes. In this work, we exp…
The emergence of dark matter-deficient ultra-diffuse galaxies driven by scatter in the stellar mass-halo mass relation and feedback from globular clusters
Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Marta Reina-Campos
In addition to their low stellar densities, ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have a broad variety of dynamical mass-to-light ratios, ranging from dark matter (DM) dominated systems to…
What to expect when using globular clusters as tracers of the total mass distribution in Milky Way-mass galaxies
Meghan E. Hughes, Prashin Jethwa, Michael Hilker +8
Dynamical models allow us to connect the motion of a set of tracers to the underlying gravitational potential, and thus to the total (luminous and dark) matter distribution. They a…
Constraining the formation of NGC1052-DF2 from its unusual globular cluster population
Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Benjamin W. Keller +1
The ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 has a low dark matter content and hosts a very unusual globular cluster (GC) population, with a median luminosity times higher th…
Where did the globular clusters of the Milky Way form? Insights from the E-MOSAICS simulations
Benjamin W. Keller, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Joel Pfeffer +5
Globular clusters (GCs) are typically old, with most having formed at z >~ 2. This makes understanding their birth environments difficult, as they are typically too distant to obse…
The globular cluster system mass-halo mass relation in the E-MOSAICS simulations
Nate Bastian, Joel Pfeffer, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +3
Linking globular clusters (GCs) to the assembly of their host galaxies is an overarching goal in GC studies. The inference of tight scaling relations between GC system properties a…
The kinematics of globular cluster populations in the E-MOSAICS simulations and their implications for the assembly history of the Milky Way
Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Marta Reina-Campos +5
We present a detailed comparison of the Milky Way (MW) globular cluster (GC) kinematics with the 25 Milky Way-mass cosmological simulations from the E-MOSAICS project. While the MW…
Kraken reveals itself -- the merger history of the Milky Way reconstructed with the E-MOSAICS simulations
J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Joel L. Pfeffer, Mélanie Chevance +6
Globular clusters (GCs) formed when the Milky Way experienced a phase of rapid assembly. We use the wealth of information contained in the Galactic GC population to quantify the pr…
Predicting accreted satellite galaxy masses and accretion redshifts based on globular cluster orbits in the E-MOSAICS simulations
Joel L. Pfeffer, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +4
The ages and metallicities of globular clusters (GCs) are known to be powerful tracers of the properties of their progenitor galaxies, enabling their use in determining the merger…
A model for the minimum mass of bound stellar clusters and its dependence on the galactic environment
Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, Marta Reina-Campos, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen
We present a simple physical model for the minimum mass of bound stellar clusters as a function of the galactic environment. The model evaluates which parts of a hierarchically-clu…