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The THESAN-ZOOM project: clumpiness of high-redshift galaxies and its connection to bursty star formation
Zihao Wang, Xuejian Shen, Rahul Kannan +12
Recent JWST observations have revealed diverse high-redshift galaxy morphologies, including a population with irregular and clumpy structures. The physical origin of these structur…
Globular cluster abundance patterns inherited from giant molecular clouds
William McClymont, Vasily Belokurov, Sandro Tacchella +16
Globular clusters exhibit large star-to-star variations and anticorrelations in their light element abundances that are commonly interpreted in terms of in-cluster self-enrichment,…
From THESAN-ZOOM to JWST: Predicting ionizing photon escape and the rise of UV-bright reionization sources
Zebedee Summerfield, William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella +14
Understanding the sources and evolution of cosmic reionization remains a central challenge in astrophysics, with the escape of ionizing Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons from early gal…
Inferring the Impacts of Baryonic Feedback from Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Cross-Correlations
Alex Laguë, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Josh Borrow +4
The complex processes of baryonic feedback associated with galaxy evolution are still poorly understood, and their impact on the clustering of matter on small scales remains diffic…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: The Hidden Neighbours of OI Absorbers during Reionization
Giulia Pruto, Laura Keating, Rahul Kannan +9
Metal absorbers represent a powerful probe of galaxy feedback and reionization, as highlighted by both observational and theoretical results showing an increased abundance of low-i…
Nulling baryonic feedback in weak lensing surveys using cross-correlations with fast radio bursts
Calvin Leung, Josh Borrow, Kiyoshi W. Masui +4
Baryonic feedback is a leading contaminant in studying dark matter and cosmology using cosmic shear. This has meant omitting much of the data during cosmological inference, or forw…
COLIBRE: calibrating subgrid feedback in cosmological simulations that include a cold gas phase
Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +17
We present the calibration of stellar and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in the subgrid model for the new COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. COLIBRE di…
The COLIBRE project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution
Joop Schaye, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller +18
We present the COLIBRE galaxy formation model and the COLIBRE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. COLIBRE includes new models for radiative cooling, dust grains, star…
High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations
Teodora-Elena Bulichi, Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith +7
High-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) have long been recognized as key probes of early black hole growth and galaxy evolution. However, modeling this population remains diffic…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Mystery N/O more -- uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +15
We present an analysis of metallicities and chemical abundances at in the THESAN-ZOOM simulations. We find that smoothly curved gas-phase and stellar mass-metallicity rela…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Star formation efficiency from giant molecular clouds to galactic scale in high-redshift starbursts
Zihao Wang, Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger +12
Star formation in galaxies is inherently complex, involving the interplay of physical processes over a hierarchy of spatial scales. In this work, we investigate the connection betw…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Star-formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies
Xuejian Shen, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein +10
Recent JWST observations hint at unexpectedly intense cosmic star-formation in the early Universe, often attributed to enhanced star-formation efficiencies (SFEs). Here, we analyze…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: central starbursts and inside-out quenching govern galaxy sizes in the early Universe
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +9
We explore the evolution of galaxy sizes at high redshift () using the high-resolution THESAN-ZOOM radiation-hydrodynamics simulations, focusing on the mass range of $1…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization
Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith +8
Population III (Pop III) stars are the first stars in the Universe, forming from pristine, metal-free gas and marking the end of the cosmic dark ages. Their formation rate is expec…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution
Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith +8
We investigate the impact of ionizing external ultraviolet (UV) radiation on low-mass haloes () at high redshift using baryonic resolution zoom-…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Burst, quench, repeat -- unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +10
Characterizing the evolution of the star-forming main sequence (SFMS) at high redshift is crucial to contextualize the observed extreme properties of galaxies in the early Universe…
Introducing the THESAN-ZOOM project: radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of high-redshift galaxies with a multi-phase interstellar medium
Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, Aaron Smith +11
We introduce the THESAN-ZOOM project, a comprehensive suite of high-resolution zoom-in simulations of high-redshift () galaxies selected from the THESAN simulation volume…
The Velocity Dispersion Function for Quiescent Galaxies in Massive Clusters from IllustrisTNG
Jubee Sohn, Margaret J. Geller, Josh Borrow +1
We derive the central stellar velocity dispersion function for quiescent galaxies in 280 massive clusters with in IllustrisTNG300. The velocity di…
Dynamical friction and measurements of the splashback radius in galaxy clusters
Talia M. O'Shea, Josh Borrow, Stephanie O'Neil +1
The splashback radius is one popular method of constraining the size of galaxy clusters, often measured through the logarithmic derivative of the galaxy number density profile. How…
TangoSIDM Project: Is the Stellar Mass Tully-Fisher relation consistent with SIDM?
Camila Correa, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye +3
Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has the potential to significantly influence galaxy formation in comparison to the cold, collisionless dark matter paradigm (CDM), resulting in…
Velocity Dispersions of Quiescent Galaxies in IllustirisTNG
Jubee Sohn, Margaret J. Geller, Josh Borrow +1
We examine the central stellar velocity dispersion of subhalos based on IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. The central velocity dispersion is a fundamental observa…
The THESAN project: galaxy sizes during the epoch of reionization
Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger, Josh Borrow +12
We investigate galaxy sizes at redshift with the cosmological radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulation suite THESAN(-HR). These simulations simultaneously capture the…
Brightest Cluster Galaxy Offsets in Cold Dark Matter
Cian Roche, Michael McDonald, Josh Borrow +7
The distribution of offsets between the brightest cluster galaxies of galaxy clusters and the centroid of their dark matter distributions is a promising probe of the underlying dar…
How time weathers galaxies: The temporal impact of the cluster environment on galaxy formation and evolution
Stephanie O'Neil, Josh Borrow, Mark Vogelsberger +2
We illuminate the altered evolution of galaxies in clusters compared to the field by tracking galaxies in the IllustrisTNG300 simulation as they enter isolated clusters of mass $10…