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20122026
most citedThe AGORA High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project

282 citations · 474 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 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.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★ 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★ 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★ 20 cited

Multiple Beads-on-a-string: Dark Matter-Deficient Galaxy Formation in a Mini-bullet Satellite-satellite Galaxy Collision

Joohyun Lee, Eun-jin Shin, Ji-hoon Kim +2

Dark matter-deficient galaxies (DMDGs) discovered in the survey of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs), in apparent conflict with standard CDM, may be produced by high-velocity galaxy-ga…

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.CO2022★ 20 cited

Calibrating cosmological simulations with implicit likelihood inference using galaxy growth observables

Yongseok Jo, Shy Genel, Benjamin Wandelt +7

In a novel approach employing implicit likelihood inference (ILI), also known as likelihood-free inference, we calibrate the parameters of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations aga…

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.GA2022★ 11 cited

Star Formation Variability as a Probe for the Baryon Cycle within Galaxies

Eun-jin Shin, Sandro Tacchella, Ji-hoon Kim +2

We investigate the connection of the regulation of star formation and the cycling of baryons within and in and out of galaxies. We use idealized numerical simulations of Milky Way-…

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…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 41 cited

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. III: Cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-mass halo

Santi Roca-Fàbrega, Ji-hoon Kim, Loic Hausammann +20

We present a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations to of a halo at , obtained using seven contemporary astrophysical simul…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 1 cited

The AGORA high-resolution galaxy simulations comparison project: Public data release

Santi Roca-Fàbrega, Ji-hoon Kim, Joel R. Primack +11

As part of the AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project (Kim et al. 2014, 2016) we have generated a suite of isolated Milky Way-mass galaxy simulations using 9 s…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 282 cited

The AGORA High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project

Ji-hoon Kim, Tom Abel, Oscar Agertz +43

We introduce the AGORA project, a comprehensive numerical study of well-resolved galaxies within the LCDM cosmology. Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with force resolutions of…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 33 cited

Dwarf Galaxies with Ionizing Radiation Feedback. II: Spatially-resolved Star Formation Relation

Ji-hoon Kim, Mark R. Krumholz, John H. Wise +3

We investigate the spatially-resolved star formation relation using a galactic disk formed in a comprehensive high-resolution (3.8 pc) simulation. Our new implementation of stellar…