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most citedEnergy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies

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astro-ph.GA2016★ 50 cited

Increasing blackhole feedback induced quenching with anisotropic thermal conduction

Rahul Kannan, Mark Vogelsberger, Christoph Pfrommer +5

Feedback from central supermassive blackholes is often invoked to explain the low star formation rates in massive galaxies at the centers of galaxy clusters. However, the detailed…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 57 cited

Subhalo Demographics in the Illustris Simulation: Effects of Baryons and Halo-to-Halo Variation

Kun Ting Eddie Chua, Annalisa Pillepich, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez +3

We study the abundance of subhaloes in the hydrodynamical cosmological simulation Illustris, which includes both baryons and dark matter in a CDM volume 106.5 Mpc a side. We com…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 25 cited

The Role of Star-Formation and AGN in Dust Heating of z=0.3-2.8 Galaxies - II. Informing IR AGN fraction estimates through simulations

Eric Roebuck, Anna Sajina, Christopher C. Hayward +4

A key question in extragalactic studies is the determination of the relative roles of stars and AGN in powering dusty galaxies at 1-3 where the bulk of star-formation and AG…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 80 cited

The inner structure of early-type galaxies in the Illustris simulation

Dandan Xu, Volker Springel, Dominique Sluse +5

Early-type galaxies provide unique tests for the predictions of the cold dark matter cosmology and the baryonic physics assumptions entering models for galaxy formation. In this wo…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 94 cited

Massive Close Pairs Measure Rapid Galaxy Assembly in Mergers at High Redshift

Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez +3

We compare mass-selected close pairs at z > 1 with the intrinsic galaxy merger rate in the Illustris Simulations. To do so, we construct three 140 arcmin^2 lightcone catalogs and m…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 201 cited

The role of mergers and halo spin in shaping galaxy morphology

Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Laura V. Sales, Shy Genel +10

Mergers and the spin of the dark matter halo are factors traditionally believed to determine the morphology of galaxies within a CDM cosmology. We study this hypothesis by consi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1.3k cited

Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback

Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist +8

The inefficiency of star formation in massive elliptical galaxies is widely believed to be caused by the interactions of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with the surrounding gas.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 25 cited

The formation and evolution of star clusters in interacting galaxies

Moupiya Maji, Qirong Zhu, Yuexing Li +3

Observations of globular clusters show that they have universal lognormal mass functions with a characteristic peak at , but the origin of t…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 82 cited

Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies in the Illustris Simulation

Stefan Hilbert, Dandan Xu, Peter Schneider +3

We study intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxy image shapes within the Illustris cosmic structure formation simulations. We investigate how IA correlations depend on observable galax…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 51 cited

A moving mesh unstaggered constrained transport scheme for magnetohydrodynamics

Philip Mocz, Ruediger Pakmor, Volker Springel +3

We present a constrained transport (CT) algorithm for solving the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations on a moving mesh, which maintains the divergence-free condition on th…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 237 cited

Massive Black Hole Binary Mergers in Dynamical Galactic Environments

Luke Zoltan Kelley, Laura Blecha, Lars Hernquist

Gravitational Waves (GW) have now been detected from stellar-mass black hole binaries, and the first observations of GW from Massive Black Hole (MBH) Binaries are expected within t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 111 cited

ALMA Resolves the Nuclear Disks of Arp 220

Nick Scoville, Lena Murchikova, Fabian Walter +20

We present 90 mas (37 pc) resolution ALMA imaging of Arp 220 in the CO (1-0) line and continuum at mm. The internal gas distribution and kinematics of both galactic nuclei…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 11 cited

The Network Behind the Cosmic Web

B. C. Coutinho, Sungryong Hong, Kim Albrecht +5

The concept of the cosmic web, viewing the Universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity, is deeply engrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about the most ef…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 38 cited

Shock finding on a moving-mesh: II. Hydrodynamic shocks in the Illustris universe

Kevin Schaal, Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor +7

Hydrodynamical shocks are a manifestation of the non-linearity of the Euler equations and play a fundamental role in cosmological gas dynamics. In this work, we identify and analys…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 30 cited

Discriminating Topology in Galaxy Distributions using Network Analysis

Sungryong Hong, Bruno Coutinho, Arjun Dey +4

(abridged) The large-scale distribution of galaxies is generally analyzed using the two-point correlation function. However, this statistic does not capture the topology of the dis…