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EPOCHS-DR2 I: Expanded data release and properties of photometrically selected galaxies across NIRCam deep fields covering with the galfind software
Duncan Austin, Christopher J. Conselice, Thomas Harvey +14
We present the \epochstwo\ sample of star forming galaxies at produced using the \galfind\ photometric pipeline across $\sim650-740~\mathrm{arcmin}^2…
FLAGS II: Constraining Galaxy Formation Models with Dimensionality Reduction of Direct Observables
Jack C. Turner, Stephen M. Wilkins, William J. Roper +1
Comparisons between observations of galaxies and theoretical predictions are regularly performed using physical properties, which are inferred by the often slow and biased process…
Stellar photoionisation modelling in SYNTHESIZER
Aswin P. Vijayan, Stephen M. Wilkins, Sophie L. Newman +5
Emission from photoionised gas surrounding young stellar populations ( regions) provides critical diagnostics of the physical conditions in star forming galaxies. This…
First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XXII: UV-dust spatial offsets at the Epoch of Reionisation
Paurush Punyasheel, Aswin P. Vijayan, William J. Roper +8
Recent observations have revealed intriguing offsets between the UV and FIR emission in high redshift galaxies. In this study, we use the First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulat…
First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XXI: The UV Indices of Galaxies in the Early Universe
Connor Sant Fournier, Stephen M. Wilkins, Joseph Caruana +5
UV absorption line indices trace chemical enrichment and star formation histories in high-redshift galaxies, yet their reliability as quantitative stellar metallicity, Z*, diagnost…
The LISA Astrophysics MBHcatalogues Project: A comparison of predictions of simulated massive black hole binaries
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Melanie Habouzit, Matteo Bonetti +67
In the hierarchical paradigm of galaxy formation, central massive black holes (MBHs) are expected to coalesce after the merger of their host galaxies. One of the main goals of the…
Efficiently emulating distribution functions in gigaparsec volumes for varying cosmological parameters
Christopher C. Lovell, Max E. Lee, William J. Roper +4
We present a new method for emulating the halo mass function (HMF) and other distribution functions in large effective volumes, down to low halo masses, whilst simultaneously modif…
aurel: A Python package for automatic relativistic calculations
Robyn L. Munoz, Christian T. Byrnes, Will J. Roper
\texttt{aurel} is an open-source Python package designed to \emph{au}tomatically calculate \emph{rel}ativistic quantities. It uses an efficient, flexible and user-friendly caching…
First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XX: Comparing semi-analytic models at high-redshift
Louise T. C. Seeyave, Carlton M. Baugh, Angel Chandro-Gomez +13
We explore how the choice of galaxy formation model affects the predicted properties of high-redshift galaxies. Using the FLARES zoom resimulation strategy, we compare the EAGLE hy…
Flexible Simulation Based Inference for Galaxy Photometric Fitting with Synthesizer
Thomas Harvey, Christopher C. Lovell, Sophie Newman +13
We introduce Synference, a new, flexible Python framework for galaxy SED fitting using simulation-based inference (SBI). Synference leverages the Synthesizer package for flexible f…
The Nature of High-Redshift Massive Quiescent Galaxies -- Searching for RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 in FLARES
Jack C. Turner, Will J. Roper, Aswin P. Vijayan +5
RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 (RQG) is the earliest massive quiescent galaxy identified to date, inferred to have formed its abundant stellar mass in a single burst that ceases rapidly before $…
Synthesizer: a Software Package for Synthetic Astronomical Observables
Christopher C. Lovell, William J. Roper, Aswin P. Vijayan +3
We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, b…
Interpreting nebular emission lines in the high-redshift Universe
Aswin P. Vijayan, Robert M. Yates, Christopher C. Lovell +7
One of the most remarkable outcomes from \textit{JWST} has been the exquisite UV-optical spectroscopic data for galaxies in the high-redshift Universe (), enabling the us…
Synthesizer: Synthetic Observables For Modern Astronomy
Will J. Roper, Christopher Lovell, Aswin Vijayan +12
Synthesizer is a fast, flexible, modular, and extensible Python package that empowers astronomers to turn theoretical galaxy models into realistic synthetic observations - includin…
First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) -- XVIII: the ionising emissivities and hydrogen recombination line properties of early AGN
Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan, Scott Hagen +10
One of the most remarkable results from the \emph{James Webb Space Telescope} has been the discovery of a large population of compact sources exhibiting strong broad H emission,…
First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) -- XIX: Supermassive black hole mergers in the early Universe and their environmental dependence
Shihong Liao, Dimitrios Irodotou, Maxwell G. A. Maltz +10
The upcoming space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory, LISA, is expected to detect GW signals from supermassive black hole (SMBH) mergers occurring at high redshifts. Howeve…
ALMA Band 3 Selection of Ultra-high Redshift Dropouts: The final challenge to ΛCDM
C. Lovell, M. Lee, A. Vijayan +10
The Lyman-break technique has been used to successfully identify high-redshift candidates in broad-band photometric data in the rest-frame optical and NIR using the dropout techniq…
Cloudy-Maraston: Integrating nebular continuum and line emission with the Maraston stellar population synthesis models
Sophie L. Newman, Christopher C. Lovell, Claudia Maraston +5
The James Webb Space Telescope has ushered in an era of abundant high-redshift observations of young stellar populations characterized by strong emission lines, motivating us to in…
Learning the Universe: Cosmological and Astrophysical Parameter Inference with Galaxy Luminosity Functions and Colours
Christopher C. Lovell, Tjitske Starkenburg, Matthew Ho +9
We perform the first direct cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference from the combination of galaxy luminosity functions and colours using a simulation based inference ap…
First Light and Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVII: Learning the galaxy-halo connection at high redshifts
Maxwell G. A. Maltz, Peter A. Thomas, Christoper C. Lovell +6
Understanding the galaxy-halo relationship is not only key for elucidating the interplay between baryonic and dark matter, it is essential for creating large mock galaxy catalogues…
The effects of super-Eddington accretion and feedback on the growth of early supermassive black holes and galaxies
Filip Huško, Cedric G. Lacey, William J. Roper +3
We present results of cosmological zoom-in simulations of a massive protocluster down to redshift (when the halo mass is M) using the SWIFT cod…
First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVI: Size Evolution of Massive Dusty Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from UV to IR
Paurush Punyasheel, Aswin P. Vijayan, Thomas R. Greve +9
We use the First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) to study the evolution of the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) and far-infrared (FIR) sizes for a statistical sample o…
EPOCHS Paper V. The dependence of galaxy formation on galaxy structure at z < 7 from JWST observations
Christopher J. Conselice, Justin T. F. Basham, Daniel O. Bettaney +11
We measure the broad impact of galaxy structure on galaxy formation by examining the ongoing star formation and integrated star formation history as revealed through the stellar ma…
First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) -- XV: The physical properties of super-massive black holes and their impact on galaxies in the early universe
Stephen M. Wilkins, Jussi K. Kuusisto, Dimitrios Irodotou +9
Understanding the co-evolution of super-massive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains a key challenge of extragalactic astrophysics, particularly the earliest stages…