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The bursty origin of the Milky Way thick disc
Sijie Yu, James S. Bullock, Courtney Klein +11
We investigate thin and thick stellar disc formation in Milky-Way-mass galaxies using twelve FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. All simulated galaxies experience an early per…
3-D gas-phase elemental abundances across the formation histories of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations: initial conditions for chemical tagging
Matthew A. Bellardini, Andrew Wetzel, Sarah R. Loebman +3
We use FIRE-2 simulations to examine 3-D variations of gas-phase elemental abundances of [O/H], [Fe/H], and [N/H] in 11 Milky Way (MW) and M31-mass galaxies across their formation…
Seeds Don't Sink: Even Massive Black Hole "Seeds" Cannot Migrate to Galaxy Centers Efficiently
Linhao Ma, Philip F. Hopkins, Xiangcheng Ma +3
Possible formation scenarios of supermassive black holes in the early universe include rapid growth from less massive seed black holes (BHs) via super-Eddington accretion or runawa…
Exploring the epoch of hydrogen reionization using FRBs
Paz Beniamini, Pawan Kumar, Xiangcheng Ma +1
We describe three different methods for exploring the hydrogen reionization epoch using fast radio bursts (FRBs) and provide arguments for the existence of FRBs at high redshift (z…
The Origin and Evolution of Lyman-alpha Blobs in Cosmological Galaxy Formation Simulations
Benjamin Kimock, Desika Narayanan, Aaron Smith +8
High-redshift Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs) are an enigmatic class of objects that have been the subject of numerous observational and theoretical investigations. It is of particular in…
No missing photons for reionization: moderate ionizing photon escape fractions from the FIRE-2 simulations
Xiangcheng Ma, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel +3
We present the escape fraction of hydrogen ionizing photons (f_esc) from a sample of 34 high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxies at z>5 in the Feedback in Reali…