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most citedPublic data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

Andrew Wetzel, Jenna Samuel, Pratik J. Gandhi +34

We describe the second data release (DR2) of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, available…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Great Balls of FIRE III: Modeling Black Hole Mergers from Massive Star Clusters in Simulations of Galaxies

Tristan Bruel, Carl L. Rodriguez, Astrid Lamberts +3

After the nearly hundred gravitational-wave detections reported by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, the question of the cosmological origin of merging binary black holes (BBHs)…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Accretion onto disk galaxies via hot and rotating CGM inflows

Jonathan Stern, Drummond Fielding, Zachary Hafen +5

Observed accretion rates onto the Milky-Way and other local spirals fall short of that required to sustain star formation for cosmological timescales. A potential avenue for this u…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

On the Metallicities and Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Media of Damped Ly Systems at

Stephanie M. Urbano Stawinski, Kate H. R. Rubin, J. Xavier Prochaska +7

We use medium- and high-resolution spectroscopy of close pairs of quasars to analyze the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding 32 damped Ly absorption systems (DLAs). The prim…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Halo21 Absorption Modeling Challenge: Lessons From "Observing" Synthetic Circumgalactic Absorption Spectra

Zachary Hafen, Sameer, Cameron Hummels +7

In the Halo21 absorption modeling challenge we generated synthetic absorption spectra of the circumgalactic medium (CGM), and attempted to estimate the metallicity, temperature, an…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

The imprint of bursty star formation on alpha-element abundance patterns in Milky Way-like galaxies

Hanna Parul, Jeremy Bailin, Andrew Wetzel +5

Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE-2 simulations demonstrate two main modes of star formation. At high redshifts star formation occurs in a series of short and intense bursts, whi…