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most citedEarly-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: I. Galaxy correlations and the impact of baryons

47 citations · 218 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.GA2023

X-ray scaling relations of early-type galaxies in IllustrisTNG and a new way of identifying backsplash objects

Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dong-Woo Kim +9

We investigate how feedback and environment shapes the X-ray scaling relations of early-type galaxies (ETGs), especially at the low-mass end. We select central-ETGs from the Illust…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 8 cited

Baryonic Effects on Lagrangian Clustering and Angular Momentum Reconstruction

Ming-Jie Sheng, Hao-Ran Yu, Sijia Li +7

Recent studies illustrate the correlation between the angular momenta of cosmic structures and their Lagrangian properties. However, only baryons are observable and it is unclear w…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: III. Effects on outer kinematic structure

Yunchong Wang, Shude Mao, Mark Vogelsberger +10

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) possess total density profiles close to isothermal, which can lead to non-Gaussian line-of-sight velocity dispersion (LOSVD) under anisotropic stellar or…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

Quenched, bulge-dominated, but dynamically cold galaxies in IllustrisTNG and their real-world counterparts

Shengdong Lu, Dandan Xu, Sen Wang +5

Galaxy morphologies, kinematics, and stellar populations are thought to be linked to each other. However, both simulations and observations have pointed out mismatches therein. In…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

UniverseMachine: Predicting Galaxy Star Formation over Seven Decades of Halo Mass with Zoom-in Simulations

Yunchong Wang, Ethan O. Nadler, Yao-Yuan Mao +3

We apply the empirical galaxy--halo connection model UniverseMachine to dark matter-only zoom-in simulations of isolated Milky Way (MW)--mass halos along with their parent cosmolog…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 23 cited

Hot and counter-rotating star-forming disk galaxies in IllustrisTNG and their real-world counterparts

Shengdong Lu, Dandan Xu, Yunchong Wang +7

A key feature of a large population of low-mass, late-type disk galaxies are star-forming disks with exponential light distributions. They are typically also associated with thin a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

Star Formation in Massive Galaxies at Redshift

Kun Xu, Chengze Liu, Yipeng Jing +2

It is believed that massive galaxies have quenched their star formation because of active galactic nucleus feedback. However, recent studies have shown that some massive galaxies a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 34 cited

Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: II. Evolutionary trend of the total density profile

Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dandan Xu +8

We study the evolutionary trend of the total density profile of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in IllustrisTNG. To this end, we trace ETGs from to and measure the power-law…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 22 cited

Redshift Evolution of the Fundamental Plane Relation in the IllustrisTNG Simulation

Shengdong Lu, Dandan Xu, Yunchong Wang +7

We investigate the fundamental plane (FP) evolution of early-type galaxies in the IllustrisTNG-100 simulation (TNG100) from redshift to . We find that a tight plane rela…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 37 cited

SDSS--IV MaNGA : The Inner Density Slopes of nearby galaxies

Ran Li, Hongyu Li, Shi Shao +12

We derive the mass weighted total density slopes within the effective (half-light) radius, , for more than 2000 nearby galaxies from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey using Jeans-anisot…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 47 cited

Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: I. Galaxy correlations and the impact of baryons

Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dandan Xu +10

We explore the isothermal total density profiles of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the IllustrisTNG simulation. For the selected 559 ETGs at with stellar mass $10^{10.7}\mat…