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most citedDark Matter Deficient Galaxies Produced Via High-velocity Galaxy Collisions In High-resolution Numerical Simulations

60 citations · 166 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. IX - Part 2: Effects of a Major Galaxy Merger on the Stellar Morphology of a Milky Way-mass Galaxy Progenitor

Thinh Huu Nguyen, Kirk S. S. Barrow, Minyong Jung +23

Galaxy mergers, with their high sensitivity to initial conditions, provide a valuable setting for comparative studies of galaxy simulation codes. Following our first paper focusing…

astro-ph.GA2026

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. IX - Part 1: Effects of a Major Galaxy Merger on Star Formation of a Milky Way-mass Galaxy Progenitor

Thinh Huu Nguyen, Kirk S. S. Barrow, Minyong Jung +23

Given their highly nonlinear dynamics and sensitivity to initial conditions, galaxy mergers are a compelling area to conduct a simulation code comparison. We perform a comparative…

astro-ph.GA2026

Investigating black hole accretion and feedback self-regulation in Seyfert galaxies using the FIRE-3 cosmological hydrodynamic simulations

Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Jose Cevallos +12

Recent observations of local Seyfert galaxies show an intriguing connection between Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) luminosity and a deficit of molecular gas on ~50pc scales compared…

astro-ph.GA2026

Little Red Dots on FIRE: Exploring the formation and observational signatures of ultra-compact early galaxies

Niranjan Chandra Roy, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Rachel K. Cochrane +15

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact sources with broad Balmer lines, Balmer breaks, anomalous UV emission, rising red continuum, and uncertain origin. We use FIRE cosmological simul…

astro-ph.GA2026

Learning the Universe at High Redshifts: Impact of Accretion Modeling on Early Black Hole Growth

Jonathan Kho, Aklant K. Bhowmick, Rainer Weinberger +8

JWST discoveries of the earliest () supermassive black holes (BHs, ) challenge the BH seeding and accretion models of most cosmol…

astro-ph.CO2026

Learning the Universe with the 2nd Generation of CAMELS: Varying 35 parameters of the IllustrisTNG model in (50Mpc/h)^3 boxes

Shy Genel, Yongseok Jo, Boon Kiat Oh +10

We present a new set of 1,192 cosmological simulations as part of the CAMELS project, in which a space of 35 cosmological, astrophysical, and numerical parameters is explored aroun…

astro-ph.GA2026

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. XI: Solving the Non-Spherical Morphology and Evolution of Dark Matter Halos with Haskap Pie

Kirk S. S. Barrow, Thinh Huu Nguyen, Santi Roca-Fàbrega +26

We introduce a halo solving and tracking procedure that intrinsically treats dark matter halos as non-spherical objects by leveraging the bound particle searching techniques used i…

astro-ph.GA2026

CAMELS Environments: The Impact of Local Neighbours on Galaxy Evolution across the SIMBA, IllustrisTNG, ASTRID, and Swift-EAGLE Simulations

Xavier Sims, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Boon-Kiat Oh +6

Internal feedback from massive stars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) play a key role in galaxy evolution, but external environmental effects can also strongly influence galaxies.…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological back-reaction of baryons on dark matter in the CAMELS simulations

Matthew Gebhardt, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Shy Genel +13

Baryonic processes such as radiative cooling and feedback from massive stars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) directly redistribute baryons in the Universe but also indirectly redi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. X: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies at the High-redshift Frontier

Hyeonyong Kim, Ji-hoon Kim, Minyong Jung +22

Recent observations from JWST have revealed unexpectedly luminous galaxies, exhibiting stellar masses and luminosities significantly higher than predicted by theoretical models at…

astro-ph.GA2025

The role of galactic winds fueling central starbursts and quasars in the FIRE cosmological simulations

Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Boon Kiat Oh +7

Central starbursts and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to be fueled by either galaxy interactions or secular processes in gravitationally unstable discs. We employ cosmolo…

astro-ph.GA2025

How does feedback affect the star formation histories of galaxies?

Kartheik G. Iyer, Tjitske K. Starkenburg, Greg L. Bryan +20

Star formation in galaxies is regulated by the interplay of a range of processes that shape the multiphase gas in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Using the CAMELS suite…

astro-ph.GA2025

AGN jet evolution simulation with GADGET4-OSAKA

Chenze Dong, Abednego Wiliardy, Kentaro Nagamine +4

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets are powerful drivers of galaxy evolution, depositing energy and momentum into the circumgalactic and intracluster medium (CGM/ICM) and regulating…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

The AGORA High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project VII: Satellite quenching in zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-mass halo

R. Rodríguez-Cardoso, S. Roca-Fàbrega, Minyong Jung +19

Context: Satellite galaxies experience multiple physical processes when interacting with their host halos, often leading to the quenching of star formation. In the Local Group (LG)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. VIII: Disk Formation and Evolution of Simulated Milky Way Mass Galaxy Progenitors at

Minyong Jung, Ji-hoon Kim, Thinh H. Nguyen +24

We investigate how differences in the stellar feedback produce disks with different morphologies in Milky Way-like progenitors over 1 , using eight state-of-the-art…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

Inferring Cosmological Parameters on SDSS via Domain-Generalized Neural Networks and Lightcone Simulations

Jun-Young Lee, Ji-hoon Kim, Minyong Jung +6

We present a proof-of-concept simulation-based inference on and from the SDSS BOSS LOWZ NGC catalog using neural networks and domain generalization techniques w…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project IV: Halo and Galaxy Mass Assembly in a Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation at

Santi Roca-Fàbrega, Ji-hoon Kim, Joel R. Primack +25

In this fourth paper from the AGORA Collaboration, we study the evolution down to redshift and below of a set of cosmological zoom-in simulations of a Milky Way mass galaxy b…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. V: Satellite Galaxy Populations In A Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation of A Milky Way-mass Halo

Minyong Jung, Santi Roca-Fàbrega, Ji-hoon Kim +18

We analyze and compare the satellite halo populations at in the high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of a target halo ( mass) c…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. VI. Similarities and Differences in the Circumgalactic Medium

Clayton Strawn, Santi Roca-Fàbrega, Joel R. Primack +26

We analyze the circumgalactic medium (CGM) for eight commonly-used cosmological codes in the AGORA collaboration. The codes are calibrated to use identical initial conditions, cosm…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Merger Tree-based Galaxy Matching: A Comparative Study Across Different Resolutions

Minyong Jung, Ji-hoon Kim, Boon Kiat Oh +3

We introduce a novel halo/galaxy matching technique between two cosmological simulations with different resolutions, which utilizes the positions and masses of halos along their su…

astro-ph.GA2023

Dense stellar clump formation driven by strong quasar winds in the FIRE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations

Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Boon Kiat Oh +9

We investigate the formation of dense stellar clumps in a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of a massive, star forming galaxy at under the presen…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 4 cited

Growth of A Massive Black Hole Via Tidal Disruption Accretion

Seungjae Lee, Ji-hoon Kim, Boon Kiat Oh

Stars that are tidally disrupted by the massive black hole (MBH) may contribute significantly to the growth of the MBH, especially in dense nuclear star clusters (NSCs). Yet, this…

astro-ph.CO2022

The fate of baryons in counterfactual universes

Boon Kiat Oh, John A. Peacock, Sadegh Khochfar +1

We present results from nine simulations that compare the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmology (CDM) with counterfactual universes, for approximately using t…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

Machine-guided Exploration and Calibration of Astrophysical Simulations

Boon Kiat Oh, Hongjun An, Eun-jin Shin +2

We apply a novel method with machine learning to calibrate sub-grid models within numerical simulation codes to achieve convergence with observations and between different codes. I…