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Galaxy Metallicity Gradients in the Reionization Epoch from the FIRE-2 Simulations
Xunda Sun, Xin Wang, Fangzhou Jiang +10
We employ the high-redshift suite of FIRE-2 cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations to investigate the evolution of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients in galaxies in the…
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…
The physical origin of positive metallicity radial gradients in high-redshift galaxies: insights from the FIRE-2 cosmological hydrodynamic simulations
Xunda Sun, Xin Wang, Xiangcheng Ma +11
Using the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations, we investigate the temporal evolution of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients of Milky Way-mass progenitors in the redshift ran…
Host-galaxy stars can dominate the ionizing radiation field of the circumgalactic medium in galaxies at Cosmic Noon
Francisco Holguin, Christopher C. Hayward, Xiangcheng Ma +2
Elucidating the processes that shape the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is crucial for understanding galaxy evolution. Absorption and emission diagnostics can be interpreted using pho…
Inspiraling streams of enriched gas observed around a massive galaxy 11 billion years ago
Shiwu Zhang, Zheng Cai, Dandan Xu +19
Stars form in galaxies, from gas that has been accreted from the intergalactic medium. Simulations have shown that recycling of gas-the reaccretion of gas that was previously eject…
Spatially Resolved Gas-phase Metallicity in FIRE-2 Dwarfs: Late-Time Evolution of Metallicity Relations in Simulations with Feedback and Mergers
Lori E. Porter, Matthew E. Orr, Blakesley Burkhart +4
We present an analysis of spatially resolved gas-phase metallicity relations in five dwarf galaxies (, …
Formation of proto-globular cluster candidates in cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies at
Omid Sameie, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Philip F. Hopkins +8
We perform cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to study the formation of proto-globular cluster candidates in progenitors of present-day dwarf galaxies $(M_{\rm vir} \approx 10…
FIRE-3: Updated Stellar Evolution Models, Yields, & Microphysics and Fitting Functions for Applications in Galaxy Simulations
Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, Coral Wheeler +18
Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we…
Public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation
Andrew Wetzel, Christopher C. Hayward, Robyn E. Sanderson +23
We describe a public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, available at http://flathub.flatironinstitute.org/fire, from the Feedback In R…
Testing the Relationship Between Bursty Star Formation and Size Fluctuations of Local Dwarf Galaxies
Najmeh Emami, Brian Siana, Kareem El-Badry +7
Stellar feedback in dwarf galaxies plays a critical role in regulating star formation via galaxy-scale winds. Recent hydrodynamical zoom simulations of dwarf galaxies predict that…
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…
A model for the formation of stellar associations and clusters from giant molecular clouds
Michael Y. Grudić, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère +4
We present a large suite of MHD simulations of turbulent, star-forming giant molecular clouds(GMCs) with stellar feedback, extending previous work by simulating 10 different random…
Gas-phase metallicity gradients of TNG50 star-forming galaxies
Z. S. Hemler, Paul Torrey, Jia Qi +8
We present the radial gas-phase, mass-weighted metallicity profiles and gradients of the TNG50 star-forming galaxy population measured at redshifts 0--3. We investigate the re…
Virialization of the inner CGM in the FIRE simulations and implications for galaxy discs, star formation and feedback
Jonathan Stern, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Drummond Fielding +13
We use the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations to study the formation of a quasi-static, virial-temperature gas phase in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at redshifts 0<z<5, and how the…
The contribution of globular clusters to cosmic reionization
Xiangcheng Ma, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel +2
We study the escape fraction of ionizing photons (f_esc) in two cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxies in the reionization era with halo mass M_halo~10^10 and 10^11 M_sun (st…
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…
Towards Studying Hierarchical Assembly in Real Time: A Milky Way Progenitor Galaxy at z = 2.36 under the Microscope
Tom O. Zick, Daniel R. Weisz, Bruno Ribeiro +4
We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging and near-infrared spectroscopy from Keck/MOSFIRE to study the sub-structure around the progenitor of a Milky Way-mass galaxy in the Hubb…
Balmer breaks in simulated galaxies at z>6
C. Binggeli, E. Zackrisson, X. Ma +6
Photometric observations of the spectroscopically confirmed galaxy MACS1149-JD1 have indicated the presence of a prominent Balmer break in its spectral energy distri…
Self-consistent proto-globular cluster formation in cosmological simulations of high-redshift galaxies
Xiangcheng Ma, Michael Y. Grudić, Eliot Quataert +7
We report the formation of bound star clusters in a sample of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of z>5 galaxies from the FIRE project. We find that bound clusters pr…
Predictions for the spatial distribution of the dust continuum emission in 1<z<5 star-forming galaxies
R. K. Cochrane, C. C. Hayward, D. Anglés-Alcázar +7
We present the first detailed study of the spatially-resolved dust continuum emission of simulated galaxies at 1<z<5. We run the radiative transfer code SKIRT on a sample of submil…