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Stellar feedback-regulated black hole growth: driving factors from nuclear to halo scales
Lindsey Byrne, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Jonathan Stern +4
Several recent simulations of galaxy formation predict two main phases of supermassive black hole (BH) accretion: an early, highly intermittent phase (during which BHs are under-ma…
Born this way: thin disc, thick disc, and isotropic spheroid formation in FIRE-2 Milky-Way-mass galaxy simulations
Sijie Yu, James S. Bullock, Alexander B. Gurvich +7
We investigate the formation of Milky-Way-mass galaxies using FIRE-2 LCDM cosmological zoom-in simulations by studying the orbital evolution of stars formed in the main progenitor…
The effects of local stellar radiation and dust depletion on non-equilibrium interstellar chemistry
Alexander J. Richings, Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, Alexander B. Gurvich +2
Interstellar chemistry is important for galaxy formation, as it determines the rate at which gas can cool, and enables us to make predictions for observable spectroscopic lines fro…
Firefly: a browser-based interactive 3D data visualization tool for millions of data points
Alexander B. Gurvich, Aaron M. Geller
We present Firefly, a new browser-based interactive tool for visualizing 3D particle data sets. On a typical personal computer, Firefly can simultaneously render and enable real-ti…
The low redshift Lyman- Forest as a constraint for models of AGN feedback
Blakesley Burkhart, Megan Tillman, Alexander B. Gurvich +5
We study the sensitivity of the Lyman- Forest observables, such as the column density distribution function (CDD), flux PDF, flux power spectrum, and line width distribu…
Rapid disc settling and the transition from bursty to steady star formation in Milky Way-mass galaxies
Alexander B. Gurvich, Jonathan Stern, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère +6
Recent observations and simulations indicate substantial evolution in the properties of galaxies with time, wherein rotationally-supported and steady thin discs (like those frequen…
Galaxies lacking dark matter produced by close encounters in a cosmological simulation
Jorge Moreno, Shany Danieli, James S. Bullock +18
The standard cold dark matter plus cosmological constant model predicts that galaxies form within dark-matter haloes, and that low-mass galaxies are more dark-matter dominated than…
Public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation
Andrew Wetzel, Christopher C. Hayward, Robyn E. Sanderson +23
We describe a public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, available at http://flathub.flatironinstitute.org/fire, from the Feedback In R…