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

41 citations · 101 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 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

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

Forged by Feedback: Stellar Properties of Brightest Group Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations

Ruxin Barré, Arif Babul, Ghassem Gozaliasl +7

We investigate how different galaxy formation models impact the stellar properties of brightest group galaxies (BGGs) in four cosmological simulations: ROMULUS, SIMBA, SIMBA-C, and…

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

Simulating the Milky Way bar and bulge with an initially Sérsic disc

N. Deg, Victor P. Debattista, Lawrence Widrow +3

We model the formation of a bar plus box/peanut bulge (BP bulge) component in a Milky Way-like disc galaxy using simulations of isolated multi-component systems that evolve from eq…

astro-ph.GA2025

Introducing the Phoebos simulation: galaxy properties at the dawn of galaxy formation

Floor van Donkelaar, Pedro R. Capelo, Lucio Mayer +2

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now allows us to observe galaxies at the end of cosmic dawn () with unprecedented detail, revealing their morphologies, sizes, a…

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

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

Santi Roca-Fàbrega, Ji-hoon Kim, Joel R. Primack +10

The AGORA Cosmorun (arXiv:2106.09738) is a set of hydrodynamical cosmological zoom-in simulations carried out within the AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project…

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.GA2024★ 2 cited

Cold Gas Subgrid Model (CGSM): A Two-Fluid Framework for Modeling Unresolved Cold Gas in Galaxy Simulations

Iryna S. Butsky, Cameron B. Hummels, Philip F. Hopkins +2

The cold () component of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) accounts for a significant fraction of all galactic baryons. However, using current galaxy-scale simu…

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…