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20132026
most citedA Universe of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies: Theoretical Predictions from CDM Simulations

133 citations · 1.1k across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Modeling the HI-Halo Connection: Evolution, Scatter, and a Halo-based Prescription for 21-cm Mock Catalogs

Mohd Kamran, Gabriella De Lucia, Marta Spinelli +3

The redshifted 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a powerful tracer of large-scale structure, and post-reionization HI intensity mapping is emerging as a competitive cosmologic…

astro-ph.GA2026

Star formation powers optical line emission from the CGM

Huanian Zhang, Lizhi Xie, Zhijie Qu +9

Using integral field spectroscopy, we explore the disk-halo interface, or the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM), of individual galaxies by constructing and analyzing emission-line…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Mechanisms Affecting Galaxies Nearby and Environmental Trends (MAGNET)

Benedetta Vulcani, Gabriella De Lucia, Daria Zakharova +28

[ABRIDGED] Galaxy evolution is shaped by internal and external mechanisms that regulate the baryon cycle and star formation activity. We present a theoretical framework based on th…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Characterizing the roles of transitory obscured phases and inner torus in shaping the fractions of obscured AGN at cosmic noon

Alba V. Alonso-Tetilla, Francesco Shankar, Fabio Fontanot +11

The origin of obscuration in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is still a matter of contention. It is unclear whether obscured AGN are primarily due to line-of-sight effects, a transito…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The clustering of C IV and Si IV at the end of reionisation: A perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey

Louise Welsh, Valentina D'Odorico, Fabio Fontanot +14

We aim to study the clustering of metal absorption lines and the structures that they arise in as a function of cosmic time. We focus on C IV and Si IV absorption features that are…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The impact of ram pressure on cluster galaxies, insights from GAEA and TNG

Lizhi Xie, Gabriella De Lucia, Matteo Fossati +2

Ram pressure stripping (RPS) has a non-negligible impact on the gas content of cluster galaxies. We use the semi-analytic model GAEA and the hydro-simulation TNG to investigate whe…

astro-ph.GA2024

NeutralUniverseMachine: Predictions of HI gas in Different Theoretical Models

Lingkun Wen, Hong Guo, Wenlin Ma +4

We investigate the distribution and evolution of HI gas in different theoretical models, including hydro-dynamical simulations (Illustris-TNG and SIMBA), semi-analytic models (GAEA…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 13 cited

Discovering Large-Scale Structure at in the C3VO Survey

Denise Hung, Brian C. Lemaux, Olga Cucciati +23

The Charting Cluster Construction with VUDS and ORELSE (C3VO) survey is an ongoing imaging and spectroscopic campaign aiming to map out the growth of structure up to and w…

astro-ph.GA2024

The diverse star formation histories of early massive, quenched galaxies in modern galaxy formation simulations

Claudia del P. Lagos, Francesco Valentino, Ruby J. Wright +13

We present a comprehensive study of the star formation histories of massive-quenched galaxies at in 3 semi-analytic models (SHARK, GAEA, GALFORM) and 3 cosmological hydrodyna…

astro-ph.GA2024

The formation of supermassive black holes from Population III.1 seeds. III. Galaxy evolution and black hole growth from semi-analytic modelling

Vieri Cammelli, Pierluigi Monaco, Jonathan C. Tan +5

We present an implementation of Pop III.1 seeding of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in a theoretical model of galaxy formation and evolution to assess the growth the SMBH populat…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The first quenched galaxies, when and how?

Lizhi Xie, Gabriella De Lucia, Fabio Fontanot +11

Many quiescent galaxies discovered in the early Universe by \textit{JWST} raise fundamental questions on when and how these galaxies became and stayed quenched. Making use of the l…

astro-ph.GA2024

Environmental effects on satellite galaxies from the perspective of cold gas

Hongxing Chen, Lizhi Xie, Jie Wang +4

Environment plays a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of satellite galaxies. Analyzing the properties related to the cold gas phase of satellites provides insights into unravel…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 56 cited

Tracing the Quenching Journey across Cosmic Time

Gabriella De Lucia, Fabio Fontanot, Lizhi Xie +1

We present the latest version of the GAEA model of galaxy formation. Our new model combines (i) an updated treatment of AGN feedback including an improved modelling of cold gas acc…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 18 cited

The stellar mass function of quiescent galaxies in 2 < z < 2.5 protoclusters

Adit H. Edward, Michael L. Balogh, Yannick M. Bahe +21

We present an analysis of the galaxy stellar mass function (SMF) of 14 known protoclusters between in the COSMOS field, down to a mass limit of M$_{\odot…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Variation of the stellar initial mass function in semi-analytical models III: testing the cosmic ray regulated integrated galaxy-wide initial mass function

Fabio Fontanot, Francesco La Barbera, Gabriella De Lucia +6

In our previous work, we derive the CR-IGIMF: a new scenario for a variable stellar initial mass function (IMF), which combines numerical results on the role played by cosmic rays…

astro-ph.GA2023

The filament determination depends on the tracer: comparing filaments based on dark matter particles and galaxies in the GAEA semi-analytic model

Daria Zakharova, Benedetta Vulcani, Gabriella De Lucia +3

Filaments are elongated structures that connect groups and clusters of galaxies and are visually the striking feature in cosmological maps. In the literature, typically filaments a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

On the origin of globular clusters in a hierarchical Universe

Gabriella De Lucia, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez +2

We present an end-to-end description of the formation process of globular clusters (GCs) which combines a treatment for their formation and dynamical evolution within galaxy haloes…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 123 cited

Early results from GLASS-JWST. XIV: A spectroscopically confirmed protocluster 650 million years after the Big Bang

Takahiro Morishita, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Tommaso Treu +39

We present the spectroscopic confirmation of a protocluster at behind the galaxy cluster Abell2744 (hereafter A2744-z7p9OD). Using JWST NIRSpec, we find seven galaxies wit…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Galaxy populations in groups and clusters: evidence for a characteristic stellar mass scale at

Jiacheng Meng, Cheng Li, Houjun Mo +3

We use the most recent data release (DR9) of the DESI legacy imaging survey and SDSS galaxy groups to measure the conditional luminosity function (CLF) for groups with halo mass $M…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

HI content of massive red spiral galaxies observed by FAST

Lan Wang, Zheng Zheng, Cai-Na Hao +9

A sample of 279 massive red spirals was selected optically by Guo et al. (2020), among which 166 galaxies have been observed by the ALFALFA survey. In this work, we observe HI cont…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Cold Gas in Massive Galaxies as A Critical Test of Black Hole Feedback Models

Jingjing Shi, Yingjie Peng, Benedikt Diemer +15

Black hole feedback has been widely implemented as the key recipe to quench star formation in massive galaxies in modern semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. As the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 29 cited

The evolution of the mass-metallicity relations from the VANDELS survey and the GAEA Semi-Analytic model

Fabio Fontanot, Antonello Calabrò, Margherita Talia +18

In this work, we study the evolution of the mass-metallicity relations (MZRs) as predicted by the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) semi-analytic model. We contrast these predic…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 58 cited

The VANDELS survey: the relation between UV continuum slope and stellar metallicity in star-forming galaxies at z~3

A. Calabrò, M. Castellano, L. Pentericci +23

The estimate of stellar metallicities (Z*) of high-z galaxies are of paramount importance in order to understand the complexity of dust effects and the reciprocal interrelations am…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

Gas accretion regulates the scatter of the mass-metallicity relation

Gabriella De Lucia, Lizhi Xie, Fabio Fontanot +1

In this paper, we take advantage of the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) semi-analytic model to analyse the origin of secondary dependencies in the local galaxy mass - gas meta…