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astro-ph.GA2019★ 38 cited

Galaxy interactions in IllustrisTNG-100, I: The power and limitations of visual identification

Kelly Blumenthal, Jorge Moreno, Joshua E. Barnes +6

We present a sample of 446 galaxy pairs constructed using the cosmological simulation IllustrisTNG-100 at z = 0, with M = 10-10 M. We produce…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 34 cited

Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: II. Evolutionary trend of the total density profile

Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dandan Xu +8

We study the evolutionary trend of the total density profile of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in IllustrisTNG. To this end, we trace ETGs from to and measure the power-law…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 104 cited

Galaxy Formation with BECDM -- II. Cosmic Filaments and First Galaxies

Philip Mocz, Anastasia Fialkov, Mark Vogelsberger +11

Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter (BECDM; also known as Fuzzy Dark Matter) is motivated by fundamental physics and has recently received significant attention as a serious alter…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 73 cited

X-ray Signatures of Black Hole Feedback: Hot Galactic Atmospheres in IllustrisTNG and X-ray Observations

Nhut Truong, Annalisa Pillepich, Norbert Werner +6

Hot gaseous atmospheres that permeate galaxies and extend far beyond their stellar distribution, where they are commonly referred to as the circumgalactic medium (CGM), imprint imp…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 108 cited

Limitations to the "basic'' HOD model and beyond

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sownak Bose, Daniel Eisenstein +2

We make use of the IllustrisTNG cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations to test fundamental assumptions of the mass-based Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) approach to modelling…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 55 cited

Simulating the interstellar medium of galaxies with radiative transfer, non-equilibrium thermochemistry, and dust

Rahul Kannan, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger +4

We present a novel framework to self-consistently model the effects of radiation fields, dust physics and molecular chemistry (H) in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies.…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 117 cited

Deep learning predictions of galaxy merger stage and the importance of observational realism

Connor Bottrell, Maan H. Hani, Hossen Teimoorinia +7

Machine learning is becoming a popular tool to quantify galaxy morphologies and identify mergers. However, this technique relies on using an appropriate set of training data to be…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 161 cited

First star-forming structures in fuzzy cosmic filaments

Philip Mocz, Anastasia Fialkov, Mark Vogelsberger +10

In hierarchical models of structure formation, the first galaxies form in low-mass dark matter potential wells, probing the behavior of dark matter on kiloparsec (kpc) scales. Even…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 41 cited

Correlations Between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations

Yuan Li, Melanie Habouzit, Shy Genel +11

We study black hole - host galaxy correlations, and the relation between the over-massiveness (the distance from the average relation) of super-massive black holes (SMBH…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 43 cited

Identifying kinematic structures in simulated galaxies using unsupervised machine learning

Min Du, Luis C. Ho, Dongyao Zhao +4

Galaxies host a wide array of internal stellar components, which need to be decomposed accurately in order to understand their formation and evolution. While significant progress h…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 132 cited

The Formation of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in Clusters

Laura V. Sales, Julio F. Navarro, Louis Penafiel +3

We use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation to study the formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in galaxy clusters. We supplement the simulations with a real…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 73 cited

The buildup of strongly barred galaxies in the TNG100 simulation

Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Silvia Bonoli, Massimo Dotti +7

We analyse the properties of strongly barred disc galaxies using the TNG100 simulation, a cosmological hydrodynamical realisation of the IllustrisTNG suite. We identify 270 disc ga…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 47 cited

Imprints of temperature fluctuations on the Lyman- forest: a view from radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of reionization

Xiaohan Wu, Matthew McQuinn, Rahul Kannan +5

Reionization leads to large spatial fluctuations in the intergalactic temperature that can persist well after its completion. We study the imprints of such fluctuations on the $z\s…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 43 cited

Baryons in the CosmicWeb of IllustrisTNG -- II: the Connection among Galaxies, Halos, their Formation Time and their Location in the Cosmic Web

Davide Martizzi, Mark Vogelsberger, Paul Torrey +4

The connections among galaxies, the dark matter halos where they form and the properties of the large-scale Cosmic Web still need to be completely disentangled. We use the cosmolog…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 218 cited

The relationship between black hole mass and galaxy properties: Examining the black hole feedback model in IllustrisTNG

Bryan A. Terrazas, Eric F. Bell, Annalisa Pillepich +8

Supermassive black hole feedback is thought to be responsible for the lack of star formation, or quiescence, in a significant fraction of galaxies. We explore how observable correl…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 20 cited

Antlia2's role in driving the ripples in the outer gas disk of the Galaxy

Sukanya Chakrabarti, Philip Chang, Adrian Price-Whelan +3

We employ the earlier published proper motions of the newly discovered Antlia 2 dwarf galaxy derived from Gaia data to calculate its orbital distribution in the cosmologically rece…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 22 cited

Redshift Evolution of the Fundamental Plane Relation in the IllustrisTNG Simulation

Shengdong Lu, Dandan Xu, Yunchong Wang +7

We investigate the fundamental plane (FP) evolution of early-type galaxies in the IllustrisTNG-100 simulation (TNG100) from redshift to . We find that a tight plane rela…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 34 cited

A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations

Dandan Xu, Ling Zhu, Robert Grand +16

Motivated by the recently discovered kinematic "Hubble sequence" shown by the stellar orbit-circularity distribution of 260 CALIFA galaxies, we make use of a comparable galaxy samp…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 100 cited

Revealing the galaxy-halo connection in IllustrisTNG

Sownak Bose, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Lars Hernquist +5

We use the IllustrisTNG (TNG) simulations to explore the galaxy-halo connection as inferred from state-of-the-art cosmological, magnetohydrodynamical simulations. With the high mas…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 33 cited

The morphology and kinematics of the gaseous circumgalactic medium of Milky Way mass galaxies -- II. comparison of IllustrisTNG and Illustris simulation results

Guinevere Kauffmann, Dylan Nelson, Sanchayeeta Borthakur +5

We have carried out a controlled comparison of the structural and kinematic properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) around Milky Way mass galaxies in the Illustris and Illust…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 153 cited

High redshift JWST predictions from IllustrisTNG: Dust modelling and galaxy luminosity functions

Mark Vogelsberger, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich +8

The James Webb Space Telescop (JWST) promises to revolutionise our understanding of the early Universe, and contrasting its upcoming observations with predictions of the CDM mod…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 187 cited

Morphology and star formation in IllustrisTNG: the build-up of spheroids and discs

Sandro Tacchella, Benedikt Diemer, Lars Hernquist +8

Using the IllustrisTNG simulations, we investigate the connection between galaxy morphology and star formation in central galaxies with stellar masses in the range $10^9-10^{11.5}~…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 45 cited

Separate Universe Simulations with IllustrisTNG: baryonic effects on power spectrum responses and higher-order statistics

Alexandre Barreira, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich +5

We measure power spectrum response functions in the presence of baryonic physical processes using separate universe simulations with the IllustrisTNG galaxy formation model. The re…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 2 cited

Imprint of Drivers of Galaxy Formation in the Circumgalactic Medium

Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Juna Kollmeier, Andrey Kravtsov +16

The majority of baryons reside beyond the optical extent of a galaxy in the circumgalactic and intergalactic media (CGM/IGM). Gaseous halos are inextricably linked to the appearanc…