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most citedFIRE-2 Simulations: Physics versus Numerics in Galaxy Formation

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75 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Emission line tracers of galactic outflows driven by stellar feedback in simulations of isolated disk galaxies

Elliot L. Howatson, Alexander J. Richings, Elke Roediger +7

Hydrodynamic simulations can connect outflow observables to the physical conditions of outflowing gas. Here, we use simulations of isolated disk galaxies ranging from dwarf mass ($…

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.GA2025

Probing the co-evolution of SMBHs and their hosts from scaling relations pairwise residuals: dominance of stellar velocity dispersion and host halo mass

Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi, Daniel Roberts +17

The correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies still defy our understanding from both the observational and theoretical perspectives. Here we per…

astro-ph.GA2025

EMBER-2: Emulating baryons from dark matter across cosmic time with deep modulation networks

Mauro Bernardini, Robert Feldmann, Jindra Gensior +6

Galaxy formation is a complex problem that connects large scale cosmology with small scale astrophysics over cosmic timescales. Hydrodynamical simulations are the most principled a…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

Zooming In On The Multi-Phase Structure of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Disks: Radiation From Torus to ISCO Across Accretion Rates

Philip F. Hopkins, Kung-Yi Su, Norman Murray +12

Recent radiation-thermochemical-magnetohydrodynamic simulations resolved formation of quasar accretion disks from cosmological scales down to ~300 gravitational radii , argu…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraining Baryonic Feedback Effects on the Matter Power Spectrum with Fast Radio Bursts

Isabel Medlock, Daisuke Nagai, Daniel Anglés Alcázar +1

In the age of large-scale galaxy and lensing surveys, such as DESI, Euclid, Roman and Rubin, we stand poised to usher in a transformative new phase of data-driven cosmology. To ful…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Powerful nuclear outflows and circumgalactic medium shocks driven by the most luminous known obscured quasar in the Universe

Andrey Vayner, Tanio Díaz-Santos, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt +18

We report integral field spectroscopy observations with the Near-Infrared Spectrograph on board JWST targeting the 60 kpc environment surrounding the most luminous obscured quasar…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

Quantifying Baryonic Feedback on Warm-Hot Circumgalactic Medium in CAMELS Simulations

Isabel Medlock, Chloe Neufeld, Daisuke Nagai +6

The baryonic physics shaping galaxy formation and evolution are complex, spanning a vast range of scales and making them challenging to model. Cosmological simulations rely on subg…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 32 cited

Deciphering the imprint of AGN feedback in Seyfert galaxies: Nuclear-scale molecular gas deficits

S. García-Burillo, E. K. S. Hicks, A. Alonso-Herrero +26

We use a sample of 64 nearby (D=7-45 Mpc) disk galaxies including 45 AGN and 19 non-AGN, that have high spatial resolution multiline CO observations obtained with the ALMA and/or P…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Zooming by in the CARPoolGP lane: new CAMELS-TNG simulations of zoomed-in massive halos

Max E. Lee, Shy Genel, Benjamin D. Wandelt +10

Galaxy formation models within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations contain numerous parameters with non-trivial influences over the resulting properties of simulated cosmic str…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 29 cited

Probing the Circum-Galactic Medium with Fast Radio Bursts: Insights from the CAMELS Simulations

Isabel Medlock, Daisuke Nagai, Priyanka Singh +3

Most diffuse baryons, including the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the cosmic web, remain unmeasured and unconstrained. Fast…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Disappearing galaxies: the orientation dependence of JWST-bright, HST-dark, star-forming galaxy selection

R. K. Cochrane, D. Anglés-Alcázar, F. Cullen +1

Galaxies that are invisible in deep optical-NIR imaging but detected at longer wavelengths have been the focus of several recent observational studies, with speculation that they c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 49 cited

FORGE'd in FIRE II: The Formation of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Accretion Disks from Cosmological Initial Conditions

Philip F. Hopkins, Jonathan Squire, Kung-Yi Su +9

In a companion paper, we reported the self-consistent formation of quasar accretion disks with inflow rates down to <300 Schwarzschild radii fro…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Cosmology with multiple galaxies

Chaitanya Chawak, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Nicolas Echeverri Rojas +3

Recent works have discovered a relatively tight correlation between and properties of individual simulated galaxies. Because of this, it has been shown that constraints…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 50 cited

FORGE'd in FIRE: Resolving the End of Star Formation and Structure of AGN Accretion Disks from Cosmological Initial Conditions

Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Y. Grudic, Kung-Yi Su +8

It has recently become possible to zoom-in from cosmological to sub-pc scales in galaxy simulations to follow accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). However, at some poin…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

An Observationally Driven Multifield Approach for Probing the Circum-Galactic Medium with Convolutional Neural Networks

Naomi Gluck, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Daisuke Nagai +2

The circum-galactic medium (CGM) can feasibly be mapped by multiwavelength surveys covering broad swaths of the sky. With multiple large datasets becoming available in the near fut…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Cosmological baryon spread and impact on matter clustering in CAMELS

Matthew Gebhardt, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Josh Borrow +9

We quantify the cosmological spread of baryons relative to their initial neighboring dark matter distribution using thousands of state-of-the-art simulations from the Cosmology and…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

An Exploration of AGN and Stellar Feedback Effects in the Intergalactic Medium via the Low Redshift Lyman- Forest

Megan Taylor Tillman, Blakesley Burkhart, Stephanie Tonnesen +9

We explore the role of galactic feedback on the low redshift Lyman- (Ly)~forest () statistics and its potential to alter the thermal state of the intergalactic…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Inferring Warm Dark Matter Masses with Deep Learning

Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +6

We present a new suite of over 1,500 cosmological N-body simulations with varied Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models ranging from 2.5 to 30 keV. We use these simulations to train Convolu…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

Massive black holes in galactic nuclei: Theory and Simulations

Tiziana Di Matteo, Daniel Angles-Alcazar, Francesco Shankar

Massive black holes are fundamental constituents of our cosmos, from the Big Bang to today. Understanding their formation from cosmic dawn, their growth, and the emergence of the f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Cosmology with one galaxy? -- The ASTRID model and robustness

Nicolas Echeverri, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Chaitanya Chawak +7

Recent work has pointed out the potential existence of a tight relation between the cosmological parameter , at fixed , and the properties of individual galax…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 9 cited

The CAMELS project: Expanding the galaxy formation model space with new ASTRID and 28-parameter TNG and SIMBA suites

Yueying Ni, Shy Genel, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar +12

We present CAMELS-ASTRID, the third suite of hydrodynamical simulations in the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning (CAMELS) project, along with new simulation sets tha…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

A universal equation to predict from halo and galaxy catalogues

Helen Shao, Natalí S. M de Santi, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +13

We discover analytic equations that can infer the value of from the positions and velocity moduli of halo and galaxy catalogues. The equations are derived by combining…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Predicting the impact of feedback on matter clustering with machine learning in CAMELS

Ana Maria Delgado, Daniel Angles-Alcazar, Leander Thiele +7

Extracting information from the total matter power spectrum with the precision needed for upcoming cosmological surveys requires unraveling the complex effects of galaxy formation…